Crown Prince Willem-Alexander - Current Events Part 2 (April 2007-)

[Empress]

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[lucien]

Ahead of the 40th birthday tomorrow,Alexander:

http://www.rtl.nl/actueel/rtlnieuws/...nder40jaar.xml

[princess leonor]

Originally Posted by lucien

Ahead of the 40th birthday tomorrow,Alexander:

RTLNieuws.nl - De prins van Oranje is 40 jaar

Thank you so much for posting this link. The pictures are great. He looked so cute when he was little, so much like Amalia. Did I get it right that he had an accident with ex-girlfriend Emily? Never new that. Is it known by the way if there will be some kind of photoshoot tommorrow?

[Verde Esmeralda]

Is the special TV show on W-A's 40th birthday still online somewhere? Sorry I missed it and cannot find it on uitzendinggemist.nl anymore...

[Vanesa]

I wish I may be able to see some photos of the events...I'm a great fan of Prince of Orange and his family.

Vanesa.

[lucien]

Originally Posted by Vanesa

I wish I may be able to see some photos of the events...I'm a great fan of Prince of Orange and his family.

Vanesa.

New York,last monday.

Het Koninklijk Huis

HRH today at the Unilever Science Award:

PPE Agency

Courtesy PPE/Buys

[lucien]

Alexander on a working visit today:

Het Koninklijk Huis

[Vanesa]

Originally Posted by lucien

New York,last monday.

Het Koninklijk Huis

HRH today at the Unilever Science Award:

PPE Agency

Courtesy PPE/Buys

Thank you, Lucien! The links were very useful to me..and the Crownprince sure looks wonderful in his news 40 years old!

Vanesa.

[lucien]

HRH,in his capacity of Chair of UNSGAB,speeched at the annual meeting of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the Worldbank,Amsterdam this morning.

The Speech:
Het Koninklijk Huis

Het Koninklijk Huis

HRH in Shanghai last week:
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Courtesy RVD

[lucien]

Yesterday june 7th HRH handed out scholarships to 15 students selected for the United World Colleges,Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Het Koninklijk Huis

[lucien]

Originally Posted by dutchman01

Hi did you ever heard of prince Maurits at one time
had a girlfriend called Sleijster and they got a child
this is where we come in the Royal Family the Shipper family is our family also we are the Vanderknaap
theres was a issue back then there was 80 million dollars involve of course we never got that because during the war all the documents were lost an destroyed
thats why the sleijsters got it claimed it and they have a fancy restaurant in Holland but I still am of Dutch Royal Family

All very interesting.But as this is the wrong thread and I am retired so no longer on duty,I would suggest to try another.Thank you.

[Marengo]

Sigh, they never learn that a crownprince doesn't pay a statevisit (as was one of the captions on the website)...
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I am very much looking forward to the interview tomorrow, the preview seemed rather promessing.

[Marie7]

Happy Birthday Crown Prince Willem Alexander!

[popje]

Happy Birthday prince Willem-Alexander!

[lucien]

With the flag and orange pennant out,Happy Birthday!

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/dsc?s=o...&ext=image.jpg

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/dsc?s=o...&ext=image.jpg

ANP Beeldbank

And some more on,courtesy HJA's,Royalblog:

http://www.royalblog.nl/

[Marengo]

What a change if you compare this with 10 years ago. I believe the confidence that people had in their future monarch was rather low (compared to these percentages anyway). If they would have held this poll after his television portrait I assume the percentages would be even higher. Newspapers, televisionprogrammes etc. really stumbled over each other this week in their praise. Even the NRC and Volkskrant! It was all ' he is ready for the throne' , ' he has grown so much' , ' the prince has much knowledge about...' etc etc.

[The Watcher]

The Prince was in New York today, he was the Chair of the preparatory meeting for the International Year of Sanitation.

The Year is organized by UNSGAB, UNICEF and UNDESA.

Press Release of UNICEF:

Addressing the global sanitation crisis

NEW YORK, 7 May 2007 – The topic of toilets often makes people uncomfortable. But a reluctance to talk about sanitation is part of the reason why an estimated 2.6 billion people world wide remain without proper facilities. This means they lack protection against preventable diseases that claim the lives of thousands daily, primarily children, according to experts attending the First Preparatory Meeting on the International Year of Sanitation 2008 today. This is a theme year set by the UN General Assembly in December 2006 to help accelerate progress on sanitation.

"As far as I am concerned, this meeting will focus on one central question. What do we want to achieve by the end of 2008, and how do we achieve it?” said His Royal Highness, the Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Chairperson for the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB). “It is important that between now and November, when the International Year of Sanitation will be launched, we take the step from general objectives to measurable targets. Targets expressed in figures, percentages and money, and in concrete project plans and partnerships.”

Full article: UNICEF - Press centre - Addressing the global sanitation crisis

UN SG remarks at the meeting (Ban Ki-moon seems to be very happy with W-A):
http://www.unicef.org/media/files/SG...ry_Meeting.pdf

The lack of proper sanitation increases the risk of preventable diseases, which hit children harder in poor countries. Currently two of five people on earth do not have sanitation, a problem prompting the UN General Assembly to declare the international year to highlight problems caused by the lack of toilets.

The international year is chaired by the Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

Full article: IOL: 'More than 2bn people don't have toilets'

[Vanesa]

I forgot to with the Prince of Orange a Happy, Happy Birthday! I know I'm belated...but, oh, I was very busy these last days!

Vanesa.

[lucien]

Originally Posted by The Watcher

The Prince was in New York today, he was the Chair of the preparatory meeting for the International Year of Sanitation.

The Year is organized by UNSGAB, UNICEF and UNDESA.

Press Release of UNICEF:


Full article: UNICEF - Press centre - Addressing the global sanitation crisis

UN SG remarks at the meeting (Ban Ki-moon seems to be very happy with W-A):
http://www.unicef.org/media/files/SG...ry_Meeting.pdf



Full article: IOL: 'More than 2bn people don't have toilets'

PPE Agency

Courtesy PPE/Paolo Filgueiras

Speech by HRH,yesterday:

Het Koninklijk Huis

Today HRH is in Washington DC for talks with representatives of organisations active in the field of Water and Sanitation,the US Agency for International Development,the Global Environment & Technology Foundation as well as talks at the Worldbank and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Het Koninklijk Huis

[Kelly]

Interesting! Two royal in DC! Willem and Q. Elizabeth. I thought he would only go to NY. Is his visit only for a day to Washington?