State Visit from Italy to The Netherlands; October 23rd-25th, 2012

[iceflower]

Originally Posted by suztav

Where's Maxima?

Máxima is on a 3-day-visit to Nigeria from October 22 - 24!



Here's another nice gallery from the gala dinner yesterday evening:


** dpp: Queen Beatrix offers State Banquet to Italian President Napolitano **



Today, October 24, Queen Beatrix and President Giorgio Napolitano visited the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk:


** gettyimages/zimbio gallery ** anp gallery **


And this evening a concert was given in honour of the President:



** ppe gallery ** anp gallery ** belga **


** dpp gallery: Dutch Royals attend concert offered by Italian President Napolitano **

[Marika86]

State Banquet pics from "Quirinale.it" Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4

President Napolitano meets Prime Minister Rutte. Pics from "Quirinale.it" Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4

Queen Beatrix and President Napolitano visited ESTEC. Pics from "Quirinale.it" Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 ** Pic 5

President Napolitano lays a wreath in front of a plaque in honor of 1940-1945 victims at the House of Representatives in the Hague.

Getty Images: Pic 1 ** Pic 2

[Marika86]

Queen Beatrix at the farewell ceremony of the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano

PPE Agency

More pics from the concert Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4

[Hendrik-Jan77]

Originally Posted by Marika86

Queen Beatrix at the farewell ceremony of the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano

PPE Agency

More pics from the concert Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4

I was shocked to see the pictures of Her Majesty at the farewell ceremony.
You can really see in her face that she is suffering and grieving a lot at the moment...

[iceflower]

Originally Posted by Hendrik-Jan77

I was shocked to see the pictures of Her Majesty at the farewell ceremony.
You can really see in her face that she is suffering and grieving a lot at the moment...

But you can also see that at the same time she tries her best to hide that... She's a wonderful, strong woman!


More pics of the farewell ceremony can be found here:


** dpp: Queen Beatrix attends farewell ceremony for Italian President Napolitano **

[principessa]

The left man with the blue jumpsuit reminds me on Mike Tindall:

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/umbraco...ss=local&name=

[lucien]

Originally Posted by principessa

The left man with the blue jumpsuit reminds me on Mike Tindall:

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/umbraco...ss=local&name=

The man left is Dutch Astronaut André Kuypers,a doctor,who returned from space station ISS last July after he spend 6 months in the space station,the longest period ever for any European.He was Knighted by HM after his return and received in Audience at Huis ten Bosch Palace soon after.

So,the guy in blue is a far cry from thug Mike Tindall.....