Princess Beatrix, Current Events Part 1 (May 2013 - April 2020)


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Today, October 28, Princess Beatrix officially inaugurated a new building of the care centre Archipel Landrijt in Eindhoven.



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Princess Beatrix attended the celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the Dutch Cancer Society in Amsterdam today, October 31:



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Princess Beatrix was present at the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Review Committee in Amersfoort, an independent body which oversees prisons, today, November 3rd:



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Christmas is coming soon ;)

Princess Beatrix today, November 13, opened the 90th annual Christmas Market at the Norwegian Church in Rotterdam. Norwegian products are sold to benefit the preservation of the church. Beatrix also received the first copy of a book about the history of the Norwegian Church, that celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.



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Princess Beatrix attended the children's summit in Leiden today, November 20. The conference was held by Unicef Netherlands and the children's rights collective on the occasion of the celebration of 25 years of children's rights.



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Today the NOS (the Dutch equivalent of the BBC) insinuated that Queen Beatrix never wanted major maintenance (because of hindrance) at Huis ten Bosch Palace, her private residence. Therefore the palace is now "in poor state".

This is pure rubbish. The NOS themselves reported about the extensive (and expensive) restoration of the Orange Hall, the central hall of the palace. This lasted for years. So the statement "Queen Beatrix did not want builders over her floor" is simply and factual untrue. The maintenance is mainly about technical installations (lead pipes for water, un-earthed electric wiring, asbestos in some parts, etc.). Here and there historic artefacts like the centuries-old silk curtains of the Chinese salon need restoration. In my book all this is normal for a 17th C building after 30 years of intensive use.

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What is that with media these days. Grrrr....

Pic: northern wall of the Orange Hall http://www.museumkijker.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Noordkant_groot.jpg

Pic: detail of the Chinese Salon with the silk wallhangings and curtains: http://www.hethuisvanoranje.nl/18%20Vorstelijke%20Verblijven/Huis%20ten%20Bosch/Chinese%20Zaal-03.jpg

Huis ten Bosch means: "The house in the forest": http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3389712.jpg

Pic: an old aerial of Huis ten Bosch palace: http://intern.strabrecht.nl/sectie/ckv/06b/ArchitNl/23_Huis_ten_Bosch_vogelvlucht_hoog.jpg
 
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IF it is untrue, I suppose it serves a purpose: namely showing that the present maintanance is long overdue and that the royal family has been frugal all these years. I suppose that it is possible that HRH may not have wanted major renovations in the private wing.
 
It is factually untrue as there have been loads of builders on the floor for the Orange Hall, but even when Queen Beatrix did not want builders in her private appartments, the owner of the palace, the Rijksgebouwendienst, could have enforced a restoration, for an example via the Prime Minister insisting that maintenance MUST be done.

I think NOS is just making hullabaloo again. I am sure that Her Majesty knew the palace was in need of maintenance but -in agreement with the Rijksgebouwendienst and with knowledge of the Prime Minister- decided to delay it "for a more suitable moment".


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In any way, it indeed also portrays the Queen as someone who does not want all these costs to be made for her, "frugal" with taxpayers' money.
 
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Princess Beatrix (who turns 77 today) attended the 56th edition of the equestrian event Jumping Amsterdam in Amsterdam yesterday, January 30. Princess Margarita attended as well.



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It is wonderful that all is well and harmonious again between Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and her niece Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme. Wonderful to see the two ladies enjoying an evening out.
 
Communique on the Royal House website:


6 February 2015


Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands will attend the funeral service for the former German Bundespräsident Dr Richard von Weiszäcker which will be held on Wednesday 11 February 2015 in Berlin.

The official ceremony will be held in the Berliner Dom. On behalf of the Government also former Prime Minister Dr Ruud Lubbers, Minister of State, will attend. In name of the Government Prime Minister Mr Mark Rutte expressed condoleances in a letter to Bundespräsident Dr Joachim Gauck.

Between 1984 and 1994 Dr Richard von Weiszäcker was president of the Federal Republic of Germany. During his presidency the German re-unification took place in 1990. Princess Beatrix and the late Prince Claus had good personal bonds with the former Bundespräsident.


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HRH Princess Beatrix will be in attendance at the dinner of the Trilateral Academic Centre for European Studies at the German Foreign Office, Berlin,Germany tonight sunday february 8th.

If IRCC,the Centre for European Studies once occupied a wing of Noordeinde Palace under the Reign of Queen Juliana who didn't use the palace all that often anyway.
 
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Princess Beatrix at the dinner of the Trilateral Academic Centre for European Studies at the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin yesterday:



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Princess Beatrix,and daughter in law Princess Mabel,will be in attendance at the first Prince Friso Ingeneer Award ceremony on wednesday march 18th at Twente University,Enschede.

Prince Friso himself was an engineer aero- & space technics,Cum Laude at Delft University.The Award has the name of the late Prince since this year.A true tribute to Friso!
 
Well done !
nearly 2 years I think of his tragic accident in Lech !
 
I believe that she (& Claus) was on rather friendly terms with president von Weizsacker. He did participte in documenaries on B eatrix / the Dutch RF from time to time, always with some friendly words.
 
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I believe that she (& Claus) was on rather friendly terms with president von Weizsacker. He did participte in documenaries on B eatrix / the Dutch RF from time to time, always with some friendly words.
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Richard Freiherr von Weiszäcker and Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst were best friends all their life long, from adolescent times on. Axel was related to Prince Claus's mother, Gösta von Amsberg, Freiin von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen. (He was also a godfather to the late Prince Friso). It was via this cousin Axel that Prince Claus became acquainted with Richard von Weiszäcker, way before he became a public figure.

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Princess Beatrix attends the funeral of the former German President Richard von Weizsäcker in Berlin:

https://twitter.com/gertjandw/status/565448223213748224
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I hope Princess Beatrix has taken the possibility to visit the Hohenzollern Crypt under the Dom, where also (descandants of) Orange-Nassaus are interred. The crypt is brand new (1960's) and sadly this shows, it has no any eerie-ness, feeling of death, of loss and sadness. Just a clinical souterrain full of coffins saved out of the ruins of the heavily damaged Berliner Dom.
 
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The Princess,Patron,will attend the 140th anniversary of the King Willem Fund in London on april 25th.After a service at the Dutch Church,Austin Friars,City of London,the Princess will attend the reception at the Carpenters Hall.

The Koning Willem Fund was a gift at the 25th Jubilee of the Reign of King Willem III by Dutch living in the UK at the time.

The Fund provides practical and moral support to those Dutch and their families living in the UK at present who need special assistance of any kind in order to get their means of existance back on track.
 
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On May 9, 2015, Princess Beatrix will open the exhibition VanGogh + Munch at the Munch Museum in Oslo. Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway will also attend. More information click here.
 
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