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The Royal Palace in Amsterdam hosts first diplomatic dinner in three years

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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Dutch King and Queen to undertake State Visit to Austria

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 events of state visits: the official welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace, the laying of a wreath to commemorate…
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Princess Laurentien marks a sombre Europe Unity Day

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands has given a speech to celebrate Europe Unity Day, which falls every year on 9 May.  Speaking from De Balie, an old tribunal that currently functions as an event space and a café-restaurant, the Dutch Princess talked about Europe and the vast array of sentiments connecting each individual to that idea. Naturally, she also mentioned Ukraine, as the…
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Special collection from the Dutch vault to go on display in unique exhibition

A new exhibition has opened about Queen Juliana of the Netherlands that showcases some of the most important moments in her reign through a unique lens. Her Majesty was a collector of dolls, and, over the course of her life, she received more than six hundred of them, including some from high ranking people like King Harald of Norway and US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.  Now 65 of…
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