Going through the old messages on this blog, I passed this one from early February 2013: celebrating 33 years as a royalty watcher. Since, 12 years have passed, so now it is 45 years. An unbelievably long time, although I hope that the next change of throne in the Netherlands is still years away. It […]
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King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands celebrated his 57th birthday in Emmen, in the Dutch Province of Drenthe. He was joined by Queen Máxima, Princess Amalia, Princess Alexia, Princess Ariane, Prince Constantijn, Princess Laurentien, Prince Maurits, Princess Marilène, Prince Bernhard, Princess Annette, Prince Pieter-Christiaan, Princess Anita, Prince Floris and Princess Aimée. I was a bit scared […]
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, […]
If you are still waiting for the reply of the Dutch royal family on the occasion of Christmas 2022, or one of the birthdays or other occasions in 2023, you unfortunately wait in vain. When Wills, a Dutch royal fan and owner of the website Koningsfan.nl, recently inquired at the Government Information Service, she received […]
In the Netherlands it is a good practice to have a piece of art or a photo in the city hall. During the renovation 2020-2022 of the city hall in Groningen, the city where I live, there has been somewhat of a discussion: should there be a new portrait of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, […]
Early November I headed for Leeuwarden to see two exhibitions. “Vrijheid, Vetes, Vagevuur” (Freedom, Feuds, Purgatory) at the Fries Museum has several references to nobility, but isn’t specifically about nobles or royals. It deals with the lost world of Tota Frisia in the full and late Middle Ages, when the Frisians were still free people […]
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On Friday afternoon 4 November 2022 King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands and their three daughters the Princess of Orange (Amalia), Princess Alexia and Princess Ariane posed for photos in the New Church in Amsterdam. At the moment the exhibition “De eeuw van Juliana” (The Century of Juliana) is on display there. For […]
The opening of the Frida Kahlo exhibition in the afternoon of 7 October 2021 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 […]
The bride and her father
Photos & Copyright by a friend of mine. About 480 guests had travelled to Hohenems for the wedding of Philipp Eisl and Countess Tatiana zu Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems on Saturday 2 October 2021. The couple’s engagement was announced in April 2020. The wedding was planned for 5 June 2021, but at that date only the civil wedding […]
Today is the summer photosession of the Dutch royals at Palace Huis ten Bosch. Over the years I have been to two photosessions, in 2005 and 2013. Living in Groningen means that The Hague/Wassenaar is pretty far away, and travelling is not very high on my list at the moment. Nor is there as much […]