Royal Dutch Calendar

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August 2009

August 1st
Her Majesty The Queen has appointed mr.J.W.Leeuwenburg as Her General Secretary.Mr.Leeuwenburg at present is the
private secretary of Their Royal highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima.

As of the same date drs.J.Klarenbeek will be appointed private secretary of TRH The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima.

The second private secretary,mrs.drs.Y.van Eechoud,will return to the Foreign Office.Mrs.mr.dr.B.Tahzib-Lie will take her place
as of afore mentioned date.Mrs.Tahzib formerly was advisor to HRH Princess Margriet during her years as President of
the International Red Cross/Red Crescent.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 13th
Their Highnesses Prince Bernhard and Prince Pieter-Christiaan participated in the Race against Cancer,organised by the Race against Cancer Foundation,Assen.

August 17th
Her Majesty The Queen received HE the ambassador of His Highness the Emir of Qatar for a farewell lunch at Huis ten Bosch Palace.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 18th
Her Majesty The Queen received HE the ambassador of the Russian Federation,Mr.Kyrill Gevorgian,for a farewell lunch at Huis ten Bosch Palace.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 19th
Her Majesty The Queen received the Credentials of TE:
the ambassador of His Majesty the King of Thailand
the ambassador of the Republic of Albania
the ambassador of the United States of America,Mrs.Fay Hartog Levin.
Noordeinde Palace.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Majesty The Queen will attend the concert by the European Youth Orchestra at the Concertgebouw,Amsterdam.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 20th
Her Majesty The Queen received HE the ambassador of Egypt,Mr.Ahmed Amin Fathalla for a farewell audience.
Noordeinde Palace.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 21st - August 26th
Thier Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Akeshino will officially visit The Netherlands on occasion of 400 years
of trade relations between the two countries.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 24th
Her Majesty The Queen will baptise the new vessel of Royal Wagenborg Transport.
HM will baptise the ship due to the 111th anniversary of Royal Wagenborg.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 28th
Her Majesty The Queen will visit the Salland region in the province of Overijssel.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 29th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the Visserijdays of Den Oever at the island of Texel/
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will start off the 10th Red Cross Rally,Het Loo Palace,Apeldoorn.
Het Koninklijk Huis

August 31st
Her Majesty The Queen will open the renovated Academy building of the University of Leiden,HM's Alma Mater.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Higness Princess Margriet will unveil the restored Quarter fountain,Apeldoorn.
Het Koninklijk Huis

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September 2009

September 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will receive the first copy of the bookon; "Four Centuries of Dutch - American relations,1609 - 2009;",Choir church/Koorkerk at Middelburg.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 5th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the religious wedding
of Bernardo Guillermo and Eva Prinz-Valdez ,New York City.

September 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will travel the country on board the A to Z Express in her capacity of fantastic
advocate for the Illiterate on World Illiteracy Day.Later HRH will speech and hand-out the National Illiteracy Awards,Zeist.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 8th - 13th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the New York 400 celebrations,NYC.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 9th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the 60th jubilee of the "Zonnebloem" National Society.An organisation
of volunteers mainly for day trips for the disabled and elderly.The Hague.
Het Koninklijk Huis



September 15th
Her Majesty The Queen will read the Speech from the Throne at the Hall of Knights,The Hague.
Her Majesty will be accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima ,
Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien , Princess Margriet and Prof.mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven.
The Hague,Hall of Knights.

September 16th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Shell Technology Centre,Amsterdam.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 19th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the 50th national closure day of the Zwaluw actie,Oeffelt.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend Scout-Inn09 at the Velder Estate, Liempde.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 20th
Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will attend the commemoration of the 65th anniversary
of the Liberation of the City of Nijmegen.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new museum "M" in Leuven/Louvain jointly with Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 22nd
Her Majesty The Queen will the renovated office of the Union of Municipalities,The Hague.
Het Koninklijk HuisHer Majesty The Queen will receive the Credentials of Their Excellencies:
The ambassador of the Turkish Republic,mr.Uaÿur Doaÿan
The ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic,dr.Mohammad Ayman Jamil Soussan.
Noordeinde Palace.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 23rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the "City of the Sun" neighbourhood,Heerhugowaard.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 26th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will visit "Developmentcooperation Now" event at the Fokker Terminal,The Hague.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 26th - 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will the Donor Partner forum in Amman,Jordan.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 29th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the RAIElisium,Amsterdam,RAI Complex.
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=29947

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the lustrum seminar on micro-pensions "World Granny"
at the visitors center of the Nederlandse Bank,Amsterdam.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 30th
Her Majesty The Queen will open the new venue of the Central Statistics Agency,Heerlen.
Het Koninklijk Huis
Her Majesty The Queen received the Credentials of TE:
The ambassador of the Servant of the Two Holy Mosques,His Majesty the King of Saudi Arabia,Abdullah A. Alshaghrood
The ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo,Dr. Henri Mova Sakayi.
Noordeinde Palace
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=30156

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open community center Bunga Pala,a center for the Moluccan community,Marum.
Het Koninklijk Huis

September 30th - October 3rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet attended the Meeting of the Governing Board of the
International Federation of Red Cross and RedCrescentfoundations,Geneva.
Het Koninklijk Huis

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October 2009

October 1st - October 4th --- October 6th - October 9th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange ,Member of the International Olympic Committee,
will attend the 121th session of the IOC,and the XIII Olympic Congress,Copenhagen.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima opened the Family Business Congres at the Beurs van Berlage,Amsterdam.
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=30181

October 3rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the 30th anniversary of the Breastcancer Society Netherlands at Defabrique,Utrecht.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 7th
Her Majesty The Queen will open the exhibition "Van Gogh's letters,the artist talks" at the van Gogh Museum,Amsterdam.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 9th
Her Majesty The Queen will hand-out the Royal Grant for Painting,Royal Palace,Amsterdam.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will the exhibition"The Qi of China",the Junior Museum of the Tropics,Amsterdam.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima , Member of the Dutch Council for Microfinance,will attend the Microfinance Entrepeneurpoint,Utrecht.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 14th
Her Majesty The Queen will open the ROC College at Hengelo,Twente region.
Het Koninklijk Huis
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open,and speech at,the Red Cross Symposium;" World Disaster Report 2009",Vlaardingen.
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=30288

October 15th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Maxima will attend the opening
of the exhibition of "Oman",Nieuwe Kerk,Amsterdam.TRH have been on a official visit to Oman last january.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 16th
Her Majesty The Queen will open the exhibition "Cézanne - Picasso - Mondriaan" at the Municipal Museum,The Hague.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the exhibitions on Royal Fans and Royal Miniatures at Het Loo Palace.
Het Koninklijk Huis
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=24864
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=21518

October 23rd
Prof.mr.Pieter van Vollenhoven ,Patron of the SSN, will open the lustrum symposium of the Student Sport (SSN) on occasion of its 50th anniversary,Utrecht.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Professor mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the LustrumSymposiumonStudentSportsNetherlands,Utrecht.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 24th
Her Majesty The Queen, Patron,will attend the celebration on occasion of the 130th anniversary of
the Royal Society "Het Friesch Paarden-Stamboek",Leeuwarden.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 26th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend a session of the Club of Rome´s annual Global Assembly,Amsterdam.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 26th - 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the Microcredit Summit,New Delhi.

October 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the Culturalis Theatre at the Schilderswijk neighbourhood,The Hague.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 28th
Her Majesty The Queen accompanied by TRH The Prince of Orange, Princess Máxima,Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien will attend the opening performance of the Holland Dance Festival,Fifty Year of Challenging Dance by the Nederlands Dans Theater on occasion of its 50th anniversary.Lucent Danstheater,The Hague.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima , Co-Patron of the Orange Fund,will visit two projects for aid to
vulnerable children,funded by the Orange Fund.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 29th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the RDM Campus,Rotterdam.The Campus is at the former wharf and headquarters
of RDM,once The Netherlands largest wharf.
Het Koninklijk Huis

October 30th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Liberationmuseum Zeeland at Borssele.The museum is all about the Battle of the Schelde,the forgotten battle (WWII).
Het Koninklijk Huis

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November 2009

November 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will hand-out the Otto von der Gablentz Prize,aula of the University of Amsterdam.
The late Otto von der Gablentz was the one time German ambassador to The Netherlands and a very dear and close friend
of Her Majesty The Queen and the late Prince Claus.
Het Koninklijk Huis

November 3rd - 6th
Her Majesty The Queen accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will
pay a State Visit to Mexico by invitation of HE President Felipe Calderón.
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=30037

November 9th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the 15th balletgala of the Dancersfund '79 Foundation,Amsterdam Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.
Het Koninklijk Huis

November 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the jubilee congress of the commission on equal threatment.Utrecht.
Het Koninklijk Huis

November 12th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the "Farewell Monologues" at the Schouwburg,Leiden.A performance,witty and serious on dealing with paliative/terminal care.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the 30th anniversary of the National Institute for Budgeteducation at the Money museum,Utrecht.

November 13th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange ,Patron of the Praemium Erasmianum,will hand-out the Erasmus prize 2009 to Antonio Cassese (Italian) and Benjamin Ferencz (American).Noordeinde Palace.
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=30183

November 15th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the religious service on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Christian National Union.Utrecht.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the International conference ;
" Justice in motion,From Nuremberg to The Hague and Beyond".Peace Palace,The Hague.
Het Koninklijk Huis

November 17th
Her Majesty The Queen will open care-center Malburgstaete,Arnhem.
http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=30290

November 20th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the Child Rights UNICEF Summit,Leiden.
Het Koninklijk Huis

Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof.mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the annual Stuyvesant Ball
at the Hyatt Regency in NYC.

November 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend,and speech at,the congress of Our Language by the Our Language Society.Utrecht.

November 24th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the hand-out of the Queen Wilhelmina Research Prize of the KWF,the Queen Wilhelmina Cancer Fund.
Hall of Knights,The Hague.
Het Koninklijk Huis

November 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit two projects of Music Matters and attend a workconference of the foundation.Rotterdam-Delfshaven

November 27th
Her Majesty The Queen and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima ,will attend the
jubilee on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Society of Chief Editors .Circustheater,(no less),Scheveningen.
Het Koninklijk Huis

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December 2009

December 3rd
Princess Maxima atteneds the prize giving for the best improvment for young homeless situation

December 6th
Her Majesty The Queen will attend the unique performance based on her late husband love for Africa,Suriname and The Netherlands Antilles and development issues: "Claus" at the Royal Theater Carré,Amsterdam

December 16th
Her Majesty The Queen ,accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima,Prince Friso and Princess Mabel, Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien,will be in attendance at the hand-out of the Prince Claus Prize 2009 to Colombian
architect Simon Vélez,Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ,Amsterdam.
Prince Constantijn,Co-Patron of the Prince Claus Prize together with Prince Friso,will hand-out the Prize.
Het Koninklijk Huis

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2010

April 30th 2010
Her Majesty The Queen and members of the Royal Family will celebrate Queensday in the Province of Zeeland,
in the village of Wemeldinge and the city of Middelburg.
Het Koninklijk Huis

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November 12th

His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange received the AFRICASAN Award for his substantial work on sanitation in Africa.
The Award was bestowed by all African Ministers for Water and Sanitation.

November 14th

Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange,Princess Máxima and the Princesses Amalia,Alexia and Ariane
attended the welcoming of Sinterklaas,Scheveningen.

November 17th - 20th , 23rd - 26th

Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the General Assembly of the International Foundation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies,Nairobi,Kenya.

November 19th - 20th

Her Majesty The Queen will attend the celebrations of 20th anniversary Treaty on Child Rights by invitation of Her Majesty
Queen Silvia of Sweden.

November 21st

Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend,and speech at,the congres "Onze Taal" (Our Language),Utrecht.

November 25th

Her Highness Princess Annette will receive the first CD "Lalalala " by "the Upside from Down",Event Center The Challenge 2.0,Hoofddorp.

December 13th

His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the premiere of the "Hell of '63",on the Elfsteden skating tour in the winter of 1963,
the coldest and most trying of Elfstedentochten.WTC Expo Leeuwarden.

December 15th

Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the art event "Niet Normaal" (Not Normal) at the Beurs van Berlage,Amsterdam.