Princess Margriet & Prof Pieter Van Vollenhoven, Current Events 2 (Nov 2006-Dec 2008)

[lucien]

HRH Princess Margriet,Prof.mr.Pieter van Vollenhoven and TH Prince Maurits and Princess Marilène attended
the "Holland - America Freindship Foundation Gala" at the Kurhaus,Scheveningen:
PPE Agency

Courtesy PPE/Nieboer.

 

[Marengo]

Hola has an article here. Princess Margriet looks very good, great earrings! A pity Marilene doesn't seem to be able to get her hands on some Orange-Nassau goodies though.

 

[lucien]

Hola has an article here. Princess Margriet looks very good, great earrings! A pity Marilene doesn't seem to be able to get her hands on some Orange-Nassau goodies though.

And some more:
Prinses Magriet, Mr. Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven, prins Maurits en prinses Marilène bij galadiner van de Holland America Friendship Foundation

Courtesy Albert Nieboer.

Princess Marilène herself is debet to not delving in the royal jewelrybox I think,she doesn't particularly care about it as I am sure she could have a piece or two three for the night if she so wished.Instead she has that Pauw meisje look,she's kind and gorgious but not a real fashion icon/bling bling kind of person.

 

[lucien]

HRH Princess Margriet will not attend the opening of the LOW Festival,Budapest due to a minor operation after which she is to hold a rest period.

Prof.mr.Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the opening of the Festival in Budapest tonight.

Het Koninklijk Huis

 

[Marengo]

Odd that they do not tell what minor surgery she will undergo, usually they announce that too. Anyway, all the best to the Princess!

Any idea how Prof. Pieter's health is? No news is good news in these matters, I suppose.

 

[lucien]

HRH Princess Margriet will not attend the opening of the LOW Festival,Budapest due to a minor operation after which she is to hold a rest period.

Prof.mr.Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the opening of the Festival in Budapest tonight.

Het Koninklijk Huis

Prof.Pieter,(who is doing OK at present,and going for check-ups every so often at the AvL) in Budapest last friday night:
PPE Agency

Courtesy PPE/Csaba Aknay

 

[lucien]

Princess Margriet opened the "Royal Road" yesterday,Apeldoorn.

The Royal Road is a walking path running from Noordeinde Palace via Soesdijk Palace to Het Loo Palace and is fully accessible for wheelchairs the whole 175 km.

PPE Agency

Courtesy PPE/

 

[lucien]

New portraits of HRH Princess Margriet and Prof.mr.Pieter van Vollenhoven:

Het Koninklijk Huis

Het Koninklijk Huis

Courtesy RVD.

 

[Marengo]

Tongiht Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will be a guest in the programme 'Pauw & Witteman' on Ned1. I think he will talk about his new proposal that 'whistle blowers' should receive prodection from a neutral institution and not from the state (as he was in the news 2 days ago because of that proposal).

 

[lucien]

HRH Princess Margriet opened an exhibition,"Dutch Lace" at the Stedelijk Museum,Zwolle today.

Het Koninklijk Huis

PPE Agency

courtesy PPE/Buys.

 

[Marengo]

And two days ago Princess Margriet opened an imgage-databank of pictures of WWII, in The Hague.

PPE has pictures here.

 

[lucien]

And two days ago Princess Margriet opened an imgage-databank of pictures of WWII, in The Hague.

PPE has pictures here.

Oops,forgot to post that here,or so it seems,posted it "everywhere" else.

The Beeldbank/Image Bank is a true treasure trove as it contains over 175.000 images of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
the Netherlands Indies (present day Indonesia and Papua New Guinee)the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba during WW II,
including quiet a few of our Royal Family,in Canada.

Image Bank WW2

 

[Marengo]

Some pictures in the 'beeldbank':

These pictures were wrapped in silverpaper and thrown from Allied airplanes, to raise moral in Nazi-occupied Holland.

With baby Margriet

'The Netherlands will rise again'

Juliana and two daughters

Wilhelmina, Bernhard, Juliana and the three little princesses

Juliana smiling, Beatrix & Irene playing

Here a picture of Juliana, Bernhard, Beatrix and Irene arriving in London in 1940.

What this and this picture are doing in a WWII database is a mystery to me, but it shows Juliana and the former German Kaiser during the wedding of Prince Louis-Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Kira of Russia.

 

[lucien]

Some pictures in the 'beeldbank':

These pictures were wrapped in silverpaper and thrown from Allied airplanes, to raise moral in Nazi-occupied Holland.

With baby Margriet

'The Netherlands will rise again'

Juliana and two daughters

Wilhelmina, Bernhard, Juliana and the three little princesses

Juliana smiling, Beatrix & Irene playing

Here a picture of Juliana, Bernhard, Beatrix and Irene arriving in London in 1940.

What this and this picture are doing in a WWII database is a mystery to me, but it shows Juliana and the former German Kaiser during the wedding of Prince Louis-Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Kira of Russia.

Is it me,I can't see the pics Marengo,I only see this "? ",you?

But there are some wonderfull pics in there.

The Kaiser at Louis Ferdinand's wedding,oh,that just got cought there,like you say,it has nothing to do with WW II itself.
But anyway,toch leuk hè?

 

[lucien]

As this wonderfull,incredibly valueble,warm,professional & great human being celebrates his birthday on april 30,Queensday,too.Here are some pics of this man,the only one I can think of to be elevated to the rank of Prince if it was up to me.He has done soooo much over the decades,all to the good of Queen,House and Kingdom.Dearest Pieter,Prof.mr.Pieter van Vollenhoven will celebrate his 69th on wednesday.

Most attention used to go to the late Queen Juliana ofcourse,but there was such a strong,warm and most of all humerous bond between the late Queen and her son-in-law.They both had/have an immense sense of humour,it must have "carried" them across many a rough sea,I'm sure.

April 30th,according to Pieter used to be a who gets to call whom first?Soestdijk - Apeldoorn or Apeldoorn - Soestdijk?Meaning would it be Juliana calling him,or him calling Juliana,they often ended up calling in the dark of night as each wanted to be the first to congratulate the other.It was a game and a lot of fun between the two of them.

Pieter van Vollenhoven,a man towards we dutch can feel nothing but respect and gratitude,and a smile when we hear his name,he's after something then.

A warm thank you "Prince" Pieter!
ANP Beeldbank

 

[Marengo]

Princess Margriet yesterday opened a new habitat for animals from Malaya at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem.

Laughing

Looking up

The opening

Pointing fingers

 

[lucien]

Princess Margriet yesterday opened a new habitat for animals from Malaya at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem.

Laughing

Looking up

The opening

Pointing fingers

Good to see HRH out and about a lot again.

PPE Agency

courtesy PPE/ v/d Werf.

 

[Her_Majesty]

04-06-2008 Schoonebeek Princess Margriet attended the opening of the, rebuild, Wilm's Boo in the area of Drenthe during the Week of Schoonebeeken.

PPE Agency

That combinations of colors... uhmmm.. they don't match at all.

But Margriet looks charming. She always does.

 

[lucien]

04-06-2008 Schoonebeek Princess Margriet attended the opening of the, rebuild, Wilm's Boo in the area of Drenthe during the Week of Schoonebeeken.

PPE Agency

That combinations of colors... uhmmm.. they don't match at all.

But Margriet looks charming. She always does.

Matter of fact,the colors do match,it's just the pics that get them out of their real colour scheme.
Margriet is Margriet,she isn't Princess "Sunshine" for nothing,a remarkeble Lady,an examplary Royal.

 

[lucien]

"Prince" Pieter will open the 2008 Nordic Orthopaedic Federation Congres at the RAI,Amsterdam wednesday the 11th.

We've come a long way since.....:
home - NOF Congres 2008

Het Koninklijk Huis

 

[lucien]

HRH opened the jewish Sinai centre for the mentally disabled and psychiatric care,Amstelveen.
[DNF] Fotoarchief Denieuwsfoto

Courtesy PPE/Sinai Centrum.

 

[lucien]

HRH and Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the "End of Season" performance by Introdans,Arnhem tonight.
Het Koninklijk Huis

 

[lucien]

HRH and Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the "End of Season" performance by Introdans,Arnhem tonight.
Het Koninklijk Huis

PPE Agency

Courtesy PPE/

Het Koninklijk Huis

 

[Marengo]

Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven decided not to mediate in the case of Mr. SPijkers and the Dutch state. He offerred to mediate 1 1/2 months ago, after the 2nd chamber asked him to do so. The reason: cabinet and especially the prime minister were not happy such a role for the professor as he might be demanding files to be opened that the PM prefers to stay closed. Apart from that, the PM was unhappy with the role of Prof. van Vollenhoven in the case around the fire of Schiphol; which caused 2 ministers to resign (among them the PM's favourite).

In 1985 Spijkers revealed that accidents with mines were the fault of negligence of the ministery of Defence. He was fired as a result and authorities on all levels worked against him. In the mean time he was rehabilitated but the case has not been closed yet.

RVD: no comment about the Prime Ministers role.

Source: NOS news

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It doesn't reflect very well on the PM/government, the impression they give is they want to hush things and are afraid that Prof. van Vollenhoven will be as thorough as he was in the last case he researched.

 

[Marengo]

Princess Margriet is in Iceland until Spetember 1st. She attends the Donor forum of the foundation of the international red cross and the red half moon.

Source: Royal blog

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Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the KLM Open Golf Pro Am in Zandvoort on August 22nd, look here. And here another picture by Leo Vogelzang.

He was interviewed by newspaper 'De Pers'. He told Koster & Jojanneke that he has become a 'nature freak' when he moved to Apeldoorn. He also makes a plea to keep the golf greens green, and not to build houses, apartment buildings and offices around them. The article in Dutch here.

 

[lucien]

HRH Princess Margriet attends the Paralympics starting this friday in Bejing.

News Summary Royalblog.nl: Princes and princesses flock again to Beijing

Courtesy HJA's Royalblog.

http://www.royalblog.nl/

 

[Marengo]

Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven, chairman of the national restoration fund' says that the government has to start a serious budget to spend on monuments. This will provide more clarity, he disagrees with the preent policy of the state with incidental money to restore monuments.

He also critisizes the law from 1961 that protects the looks of cities and villiges. According to him the law is outdated and a new law is needed to protect more.

Article in Dutch here.
Source: Telegraaf

 

[lucien]

HRH Princess Margriet attends the Paralympics starting this friday in Bejing.

News Summary Royalblog.nl: Princes and princesses flock again to Beijing

Courtesy HJA's Royalblog.

http://www.royalblog.nl/

The Princess and her sister,HM The Queen,will jointly receive and honour the Paralympic Medal winners,friday september 19th,
Noordeinde Palace.

 

[Marengo]

While in Beijing for the Paralympics HRH Princess Margriet also visited one of the SOS kinderdorpen (childrens villages) where 128 orphanes are housed.

Source: Telegraaf

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Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven says he has to check in every 6 weeks in the hospital due to his illness.

Source: Weekend

 

[Marengo]

Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the opening of an exhibition about traffic safety in Veendam yesterday. He was there in his capacity of chariman of the National Safety Commission.

Article in Dutch here.