King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
paid a visit to Southwest Drenthe on Wednesday to meet with the
residents, as well as to support entrepreneurs and their business
initiatives – and the Queen got to meet a parrot, as well. Their
visit to Southwest Drenthe saw them visiting the municipalities of
Hoogeveen, Westerveld, De Wolden and Meppel. According to the Dutch
Royal House’s website…
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…
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 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, caregivers and healthcare professionals can
come together for a monthly meeting to talk about living with
dementia and make…
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…
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 work, and we talk about it a
lot,” Queen Máxima said in an interview in Bangladesh, referring to
her three daughters…
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…
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 during a State Visit from
the Netherlands to the United Kingdom. The King’s mother Princess
Beatrix was appointed to the…
