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…
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands had a
busy Thursday and was on an engagement literally close to
home. On Thursday morning, Máxima visited the TextielMuseum
in Tilburg. Conservators at the museum are currently working on
repairing and restoring curtains from the…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima begin State Visit to Austria with a lot of symbolic pieces
29th June 2022
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of
the Netherlands began a very busy State Visit to Austria with all
of the traditional engagements of a first day. They landed in
Wien and were welcomed at the airport by many authorities before
being escorted to Homburg, the…
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…
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 –…
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…
