King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of
the Netherlands held the annual diplomatic corps dinner at the
Royal Palace on the evening of Wednesday, 22 June. Their
Majesties welcomed around 250 guests in the Dining Hall of the
Royal Palace for the first time in three years. Each year, the
dinner has a different theme – for 2022, the Royal Palace chose
“politics and governance.” King…
Laughs, tears and tiaras in Oslo as Princess Ingrid Alexandra officially celebrates her 18th birthday
18th June 2022
Friday night was the pinnacle of the
royal year. King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway hosted a gala
dinner in Oslo to celebrate Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s 18th
birthday. From about 7:30 pm, the halls of the Royal Palace
started filling with people – ordinary…
Queen Máxima revealed that her eldest
daughter is keen to join her on future United Nations trips during
an interview in Senegal this week. The Dutch queen visited the Côte
d’Ivoire and Senegal earlier this week in her role as the UN
Secretary General’s Special…
The pandemic put a severe brake on most
royal activity, worldwide. Perhaps the biggest was related to
travel. For them, like many, the solution was digital travel over
the internet. Nevertheless, this was by no means the same, and did
not attract nearly the attention that a real royal journey does. It
is probably no secret that the royals are happy to be able to
travel again, meet people and…
Queen Máxima has landed in Ivory Coast’s
capital Abidjan as part of a four-day visit that will also take her
to Senegal as UN Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for
Development. Her Majesty landed aboard an Air France flight
at around 9 pm local time on Sunday…
The Dutch Royal Household has announced
that King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will undertake a State
Visit to Austria at the end of next month. The visit’s
programme has been already released, and the first day, Monday, 27
June, will see all of the traditional…
Queen Máxima stepped out for the award
ceremony of the King Willem I business prizes, one of the most
prestigious acknowledgements in the Netherlands. The ceremony
took place in the evening of Monday, 23rd May, at Groningen’s
Forum, in the presence of Her Majesty, the CEO of De Nederlandsche
Bank and chairman of the Koning Willem I Foundation, Klaas Knot, as
well as representatives for the…
On Sunday, 9 September 2012, the then
Princess Máxima of the Netherlands swam the two-kilometre Amsterdam
City Swim to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
through the canals of the city. She finished the course in
just under an hour. Dressed in a…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
are headed state-side this fall, with a working business visit to
California and Texas added to their diaries. From 6-9 September,
the Dutch royals will visit San Francisco, the Silicon Valley,
Dallas and Houston in an economic…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
hosted a dinner for government members at Huis ten Bosch Palace. On
the evening of Tuesday, 29 March, Their Majesties offered dinner to
the members of the new Rutte government, who were installed on 10
January. The dinner marked the conclusion of the rounds of welcome
audiences that King Willem-Alexander held with all 20 ministers
plus the nine…
