The traditional summer photo session for the Dutch Royal Family took place yesterday afternoon at Villa Eikenhorst in Wassenaar.
King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima, 14-year-old Princess Amalia (The Princess of Orange), Princess Alexia, 13, and Princess Ariane, 11, took part in the photocall outside their family home for the media. It is expected that this will be the final summer photo…
Royals from three nations gathered in The Hague in the Netherlands to attend the Volvo Ocean Race this past weekend. Swedish Prince Carl Philip, Dutch King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Infanta Elena of Spain and her father, King Juan Carlos of Spain were all present…
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau is to receive an honorary doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University’s law faculty today at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
The Princess is receiving the honour in recognition of her work and contribution to human rights across the…
In the series “Before they were royal” we are taking a look at their young lives, education, and professional lives before gaining their royal title. The second edition focuses on Queen Máxima of the Netherlands or Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti as she was known before her marriage.
Born as Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti to Jorge Zorreguieta and María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart…
Princess Christina, the aunt of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, has bone cancer
21st June 2018
The Dutch Government Information Service (RVD) has announced that Princess Christina, 71, has bone cancer. It was discovered in the autumn of 2017, and she is in stable condition.
A statement was released yesterday on her behalf saying, “In the fall of 2017 showed that…
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has spoken about the death of her younger sister, Inés Zorreguieta, at her first event since her 33-year-old sister’s tragic passing earlier this month in Argentina.
During an event at a hospital in Groningen, which had been…
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands arrived in Mumbai yesterday to continue her official visit to India as United Nations Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance and Development.
The four-day trip began on Monday in New Delhi where the Queen met with UN representatives and had a sit down with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The PM’s office released a…
On Wednesday and Thursday this week, His Royal Highness Prince Daniel of Sweden visited Amsterdam to attend the seminar “Startup Summit Sweden-Netherlands” and The Next Web Fair. The visit took place at the digital innovation house Epicenter.
The seminar was…
Yesterday Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Princess Mabel of the Netherlands attended a Red Ribbon Concert at AFAS Live in Amsterdam. The concert was put on to raise international interest and attention for AIDS research and…
Willem–Alexander Claus George Ferdinand was born in the Utrecht at University Medical Centre on 27 April 1967. He is the oldest child of (the former Queen) Princess Beatrix and German diplomat Claus Von Amsberg. King Willem- Alexander is the first grandchild of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard. He was baptised on 2 September 1967 in St Jacob’s Church in the Hague. His godparents are…
