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Book review: Het verhaal van Nederland © NTR
Books & Magazines, Media & Co

Book review: Het verhaal van Nederland

Vanaf woensdag 31 januari 2024, 20.30 uur toont de Nederlandse tv-zender NPO 1 een nieuwe serie over de geschiedenis van het Huis Oranje-Nassau. De achtdelige serie heet: “Het verhaal van Nederland: Oranje Nassau. Een nieuwe geschiedenis van Nederland en het koningshuis”. Het bijbehorende boek, geschreven door Dorine Hermans en Marchien den Hertog, landde eerder al […]

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25 years Stichting Nassau en Friesland
Media & Co, Meetings

25 years Stichting Nassau en Friesland

The Stichting Nassau en Friesland (Nassau and Friesland Foundation) has been organizing activities in the Dutch province of Friesland already for 25 years. Together with partners like the Fries Museum, Fryske Akademy and Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden they also publish. Yearly at least two lectures, three city walks and concerts are being organized, and in special […]

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Willem Lodewijk Year 2020
News, Other News

Willem Lodewijk Year 2020

2020 was going to be the Year of Willem Lodewijk. 400 years after his death Count Willem Lodewijk of Nassau-Dillenburg was to be commemorated in the city of Leeuwarden all year long. This man, who during his lifetime always lived in the shadow of his more famous cousins Maurits and Frederik Hendrik, Princes of Orange […]

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An Unusual Royalty Related Statue in The Hague
Travel, Travel Tips

An Unusual Royalty Related Statue in The Hague

Last week Kathleen Van Lierop from Belgium on her blog posted “A new, quirky royal statue” in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. Not royal you’d say unless you read the whole story and it turns out the two skeletons are actually two countesses from the Middle Ages returning to their city after 800 years. I thought the statue […]

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Royal and Noble Clothes on the Catwalk
Exhibitions, Travel

Royal and Noble Clothes on the Catwalk

I must admit, I hadn’t been at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for probably 20 years, and couldn’t even remember anymore what it looked like. After the renovation that was finished three years ago it was really about time to visit again. I didn’t find the time a few weeks ago, but an old friend of […]

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Maria Louise Year 2015 (2) Here Bearn Bilker, Jannewietske de Vries, Fred Crone, surrounded by the Friso brothers (owners of the building).
News, Other News

Maria Louise Year 2015 (2)

How to open a year to commemorate one of the grandest women in Frisian history? As written earlier 2015 is the The Year of Maria Louise. The official opening of the year on 9 April 2015 took place exactly 250 years after her death in 1765. Maria Louise Princess of Orange and of Nassau, born […]

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