Royal Dutch Calendar

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November 2012



November 1st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will speak at the conference "Collaborate on international food stability" in Den Haag

November 1st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the Cultural Quarter in Sneek

November 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the jubilee concert of the Residentie Bach Ensembles in Den Haag

November 3rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the departure of the historic three-masted schooner 'Oosterschelde', starting from the home port Rotterdam for a world tour

November 3rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will be present at the Sports Parade Papendal in Arnhem

November 7th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Water Management Centre Netherland

November 9th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will make a regional visit to the province of North Brabant

November 10th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will visit Istanbul as part of the celebrations marking 400 years of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey

November 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the conference "The Future of Banking" in Amsterdam

November 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will launch the 3rd edition 'Week of the money' for children

November 14th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Criminal Court in Den Haag

November 14th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hand out the Erasmus Prize 2012 to philosopher Daniel C. Dennett in Amsterdam

November 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit a class in Zoetermeer that participates in the 'Week of the money' for children

November 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will speak at the 8th edition of the conference Growing SMEs, Connect, Exchange, Invest (SMEs: Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in Den Haag

November 15th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the morning session of the Annual Conference ECP at the Circus Theatre in Scheveningen

November 16th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will receive an honorary degree from the McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada

November 19th - 23rd
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on an official visit to Brazil

November 20th - 22nd
The President of the Slovak Republic Ivan Gašparovič will pay a state visit to the Netherlands

November 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will hand out the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Prijs 2012 in Amsterdam

November 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend a symposium in Arnhem held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Het Dorp

November 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the presentation of the 1000th apprenticeship of the Action Plan apprenticeships in 's-Hertogenbosch

November 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the exhibition "Wilhelmina's Life Evening" at the Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn

November 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will give the opening speech at a symposium to mark the 10th anniversary of the Prince Claus Chair

November 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the International Supply Management Congress "The impact of sustainable supply chains" in Amsterdam

November 30th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will present the Prize of Dutch Literature to Flemish poet Leonard Nolens in Amsterdam

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December 2012



December 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend an Extraordinary Gala Presentation on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam

December 4th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Life Sciences Park in Oss

December 6th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new railway line the Hanzelijn

December 6th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be present at the final meeting of the 10th anniversary of the Orange Fund in Den Bosch

December 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will rename the environmentally friendly gas tanker Coral Energy of the Dutch gasvervoerder Anthony Veder in Rotterdam

December 12th
The Royal Family will attend the annual Prins Claus Award 2012 in Amsterdam

December 13th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will offer a lunch to a selection of Dutch people who have distinguished themselves by a special achievement

December 13th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will give a speech at the annual conference of public libraries in the Netherlands

December 14th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend a conference of the Collaborative Fund for the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom in Den Haag

December 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the celebrations of the 120th anniversary of Koninklijke Gazelle I Dieren

December 15th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 7th Kingdom Kingdom Day Concert in Rotterdam

December 16th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a dinner of the Multilateral Centre for European Studies in Düsseldorf, Germany

December 18th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange, Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will receive the Dutch medalists of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 in Amsterdam

December 18th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the foundation Move in Utrecht

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January 2013



January 15th - 16th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima, her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the annual New Year's receptions in Amsterdam

January 21st - 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on a state visit to Brunei

January 24th - 25th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on a state visit to Singapore

January 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will read at the school Brede Buurtschool De Krullevaar in Den Haag as part of the National Reading Breakfast event

January 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Annette will open the exhibition 'Step Outside'' of Würth and the Special Arts Foundation Netherlands in 's-Hertogenbosch

January 30th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will speak at the conference Feeding the World in Amsterdam

January 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit a workshop of Probation in Arnhem

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February 2013



February 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the exhibition "Dutch masters from New York" at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem

February 5th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the employment programme Real Men in Rotterdam

February 6th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the company VDL Groep in Eindhoven

February 7th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the new town hall of Central Delfland

February 13th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will hand out diplomas to seven volunteer firefighters from Central and West Brabant at the safety training center in Tilburg

February 13th
His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard will be present at the Anner Award 2013 in the New Church in Groningen

February 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the WOMEN Inc. Festival 2013 in Amsterdam

February 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the first copy of the book "A world without cervical cancer" in Leiden

February 27th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will visit the Royal Home for Old Soldiers and Bronbeek Museum to mark its 150th anniversary

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March 2013



March 1st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the association Rural Youth WA (PJG) in Toldijk, a forum for the development of young people in rural areas

March 6th - 7th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the UN meeting "Water and disasters" in New York

March 7th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a meeting on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the High Commissioner on National Minorities in Den Haag

March 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the exhibition "Peter the Great, an inspired Tsar" in Amsterdam

March 12th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the European School Bergen

March 13th
His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn will attend the award ceremony of the Geuzenpenning

March 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will open the Day of Literature, a one-day literature festival for young people in Rotterdam

March 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the international art festival 'Yes of course - how art saves the world' in Den Haag

March 15th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a jubilee concert to mark the 150th anniversary of the North Dutch Orchestra (NNO) in Groningen

March 15th - 16th
The Royal Family will participate in the annual NL Doet events

March 19th
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Margriet and Princess Laurentien will attend the ceremony of the ECF Princess Margriet Award 2013 in Brussels

March 19th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the inauguration of Pope Francis I at the Vatican

March 21st
The Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan will visit the Netherlands and will be received by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix

March 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the jubilee exhibition in the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem

March 22nd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will give a speech at the celebration of International World Water Day at the World Forum in Den Haag

March 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the new school building of the Mytylschool and the Noteboomschool in Amsterdam

March 27th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will decorate the banner of the Royal Air Force

March 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open 'Artis in Bloom' on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of Artis in Amsterdam

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April 2013



April 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the first stamps "1001 Women", a collection of ten stamps showing portraits of notable women in the Dutch history

April 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend an extraordinary Gala Presentation on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam

April 3rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will launch the new production series of DAF trucks, developed for the Euro 6 emission requirements

April 4th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will officially open the new office of GasTerra in Groningen

April 5th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new Philips museum in Eindhoven

April 8th
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will be on a visit to the Netherlands

April 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima as special advocate of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in the field of inclusive finance for development will give the opening speech at the celebration of the fifth anniversary of The Currency Exchange Fund at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam

April 10th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the celebrations for the 125 anniversary of the Concertgebouw and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam

April 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will unveil an artwork to mark the 100th anniversary of Burgers' Zoo

April 11th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend a concert that marks the start of the celebration of 300 years Treaty of Utrecht

April 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the Week of the Entrepreneur at the Beatrix Theater in Utrecht

April 13th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the renovated Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

April 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Holland America Friendship Foundation (HAFF) in Den Haag

April 18th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the new European Heinz Innovation Center in Nijmegen

April 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit the Show Band Horn in Horn

April 23rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will plant a royal lime tree in Den Haag to celebrate the upcoming royal throne change

April 24th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the exhibition "Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens - A Golden Heritage" at the Grote Kerk in Den Haag

April 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will launch the nationwide 'Girlsday' for natural sciences and technology in Den Haag

April 25th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open "The Next Web Conference" at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam

April 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Orange Cycle, a 230-kilometer border cycle route that will travel past Apeldoorn, Bad Bentheim, Lingen and Diepenheim

April 25th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the seminar "Should we stay or should we go? On the future of Europe and the Eurozone" in Den Haag. It'll be the farewell seminar CPB director Teulings

April 26th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will open the King Games, a national sports day for pupils at primary school

April 26th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the rowing course Eendragtspolder

April 27th
His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn will attend the award ceremony for the World Press Photo of the Year 2012 in Amsterdam

April 28th
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien will present the prizes of the Oskar Back Violin Competition in Amsterdam

April 29th
A speech by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be broadcasted on Netherlands 1 and Radio 1

April 30th
The Royal Family will attend the ceremonies of the abdication of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and the inauguration of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander in Amsterdam

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May 2013



May 4th and 5th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the ceremonies of the Commemoration Day and the Liberation Day in Amsterdam

May 15th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the renovated Ministry of Defence in Den Haag

May 15th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the annual international meeting of the CGAP in Amsterdam

May 16th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the award ceremony of the Appeltjes van Oranje 2013 in Amsterdam

May 16th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend a dinner as part of the congress of the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) in Den Haag

May 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the new museum Villa Mondrian in Winterswijk

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit the children's hospital Erasmus MC - Sophia in Rotterdam on the occasion of its 150th anniversary

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the inaugural lecture of Professor Aylin Küntay at the University of Utrecht

May 22nd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the renovated Ministry of Economic Affairs in Den Haag

May 23rd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the Alexander Monro Hospital in Bilthoven that focuses on breast cancer care

May 24th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Luxembourg

May 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will unveil the Fishermen's Names Monument in Scheveningen

May 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the Noordbrabants Museum and Stedelijk Museum' s-Hertogenbosch in 's-Hertogenbosch

May 27th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Den Haag

May 28th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Groningen and Drenthe

May 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will be present at the ceremony of the European Inventor Award 2013

May 29th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will inaugurate the new building of the Fioretticollege in Hillegom

May 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend the national finals of the National Reading Competition in Utrecht

May 30th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Gelderland and Utrecht

May 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will inaugurate a new building of the museum of art in Zwolle

May 31st
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the Court of Appeal Arnhem Leeuwarden

May 31st
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will hold a speech at a symposium of the platform "Pointer in money matters" in Den Haag about the importance of financial education