The Netherlands

Dutch Princess Mabel to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu's funeral

By
30th December 2021
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau is the first European Royal confirmed to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s funeral on the 1st of January.  The Dutch Royal Household confirmed the news to ANP, the National News Agency on the 30th of December, saying that it is expected that the princess will travel to South Africa to attend the ceremony for the icon of the fight against the Apartheid…
Read more
NorwayThe Netherlands

European royals attend the state funeral of Kofi Annan

By
15th September 2018
On Thursday, several royals and head of states attended the state funeral for Kofi Annan in Accra, Ghana. Kofi Annan was the Secretary-General of the United Nations, holding the position from January 1997 to December 2006. Kofi Annan and the UN received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 “for their work for a better organised and more peaceful world”. He died on 18th August in Switzerland…
Read more
InsightThe Netherlands

Who is Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau?

By
8th May 2016
In the second edition of “Who Is?”, Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau is the focus. She was born Mabel Martine Los on 11 August 1968 to Hendrik Los and Florence Kooman in Pijnacker, Netherlands. The Princess has three sisters, in which the youngest two are from her mother’s second marriage. Her father passed away when she was just nine-years-old from a skating accident, and her…
Read more