The third Tuesday of September is traditionally Princes’ Day, the day on which the reigning monarch of the Netherlands addresses a joint session of the Dutch Senate and House of Representatives to give the speech from the throne. The speech sets out the main policy items of the coming parliamentary session.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima arrived at the Knight’s Hall in the…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima joined their Belgian counterparts, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde in Terneuzen yesterday to mark the start “75 Years of Freedom.” This will be followed by a year of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the end of…
Queen Máxima to celebrate 35th anniversary of Alzheimer Nederland
28th August 2019
Queen Máxima will honour the 35th anniversary of Alzheimer Nederland with a visit to Alzheimer Trefpunt De Til in Giessenburg on Tuesday, 10 September.
Since 1997 Alzheimer Nederland has set up 246 cafés or “trefpunt” around the country where patients…
Queen Máxima will attend the launch of the National AI Junior course in Toldijk, which will be the first artificial intelligence course taught to young students in the Netherlands, next month.
The National AI Junior course was developed by the National
AI Course, FutureNL and UpgradeNL to teach young people the principles of
artificial intelligence.
The three organisations hope to “make…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima to mark start of '75 Years of Freedom'
2nd August 2019
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend a Second World War commemoration service at the end of the month marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945.
The service will take place on August 31st in Terneuzen, in the province of…
Queen Máxima spoke about the possibility of bringing her daughters with her on future UN trips during her working visit to Bangladesh this week in her role as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development.
“They ask a lot about my…
Queen Máxima is visiting Bangladesh this week in her role as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development.
Queen Máxima’s visit coincides with Bangladesh’s plans to implement a financial strategy to improve access to its financial services, as only 50% of the adult population have bank accounts or use financial services with banks.
According to a press…
Queen Máxima is serenaded by schoolchildren during musical visit to Drenthe
21st June 2019
Queen Máxima was serenaded by schoolchildren in Drenthe on Thursday, where she attended the signing of the Drenthe Music Agreement.
As part of Méér Muziek in de Klas (English: More Music in the Classroom), the Drenthe Music Agreement will ensure that there will be better…
King Willem-Alexander to be installed in the Most Noble Order of the Garter
7th June 2019
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit Windsor on 17 and 18 June. On Monday 17, June King Willem-Alexander will be installed in the Most Noble Order of the Garter as a supernumerary Knight. He was appointed to the Order in October 2018…
Fresh off the three day US state visit of her father to the United Kingdom, Ivanka Trump, Special Advisor to the President, has travelled to the Hague, in the Netherlands, for the Global Entrepreneur Summit to give the closing remarks.
Ahead of her arrival, she gave an interview to Dutch newspaper Het Parool in which she praises Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands – who gave the…
