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Back to School with Queen Máxima of the Netherlands

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22nd August 2022
Queen Máxima, née Zorreguieta, was born in 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thus, she started her studies in her birth country.She studied at Northlands School, a bilingual school (English and Spanish) in Olivos, where she obtained her baccalaureate in 1988. After that, she enrolled at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, studying economics; she graduated in 1995. Queen Máxima…
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The Royal Palace in Amsterdam hosts first diplomatic dinner in three years

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23rd June 2022
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…
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Queen Maxima happy to travel abroad again

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14th June 2022
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…
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Queen Máxima hands out business awards

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24th May 2022
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…
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