Category: Royal Visits

Willem-Alexander opens the new Iederz building
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Willem-Alexander opens the new Iederz building

On Thursday morning, 14 September 2023, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands officially opened the new building of Iederz, the social development company of the municipality of Groningen that supports people, who are at the base of the labour market, in their first step to work. Collaborating with more than a hundred organizations work is offered, […]

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Máxima – A Queen in orange visited Groningen
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Máxima – A Queen in orange visited Groningen

Finally on a rather warm Tuesday, 5 September 2023, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands returned to the Province of Groningen. She had two engagements. First she visited the Campus Eemsdelta in Appingedam to talk about the mental health of young people, one of her main subjects in the past few years. One in three young […]

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The state visit of Charles & Camilla to Germany
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The state visit of Charles & Camilla to Germany

After a lenghty accreditation process I finally was told I had accreditation as a journalist for the state visit to Germany of King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom from 29 to 31 March 2023. As Berlin was too far away for me, I had opted only to go to Hamburg on […]

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Queen Máxima at the King Willem I Awards
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Queen Máxima at the King Willem I Awards

Since 1958 once every two years the Koning Willem I-Prijs (King Willem I Award) of the Koning Willem I Stichting (King Willem I Foundation) is being awarded. Nowadays there are three prizes, also called the Oscars of the Dutch business world, which already shows how important they are. The King Willem I Award is the […]

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Wind meets Gas – Willem-Alexander in Groningen
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Wind meets Gas – Willem-Alexander in Groningen

The opening of the Frida Kahlo exhibition in the afternoon of 7 October in Assen by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands would surely have been a more exciting engagement. But with a busy weekend coming, I decided not to go. In the early morning King Willem-Alexander also travelled north, and as the Martini Church in […]

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Queen Máxima’s visit to Hoogezand
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Queen Máxima’s visit to Hoogezand

The visit of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands to Hoogezand was a bit of a belated birthday present for me. Two days after my birthday, on Wednesday 15 September 2021, the Queen opened the new “Huis van Cultuur en Bestuur” (House of Culture and Administration) of the Municipality Midden-Groningen. As it is not too far […]

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Finally, a state visit! © Castleholic
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Finally, a state visit!

Now many people (including me and the royal couple) have been vaccinated, more and more seems to be possible. And also the royals start coming out of their palaces more often than in the past 16 months. Although we did spot some tiaras over that period, it had been a long time ago since we […]

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The state visit of Queen Juliana to Indonesia 1971 Prambanan Temple, Yogyakarta. Photo from Pixabay.
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The state visit of Queen Juliana to Indonesia 1971

On 9 March 2020 King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands arrived in Indonesia for a state visit, that will end on 13 March 2020. Because of the colonial past – Indonesia was once a Dutch colony – the visit will be a sensitive one with some tensions. That wasn’t different in 1995 when […]

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