Queen Máxima & Crown Princess Mary at World Conference of Women's Shelters: Nov 2015


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The Daily Mail seems to be getting a bit too enthousiastic. Neither WA nor Maxima are godparents to one on Frederik and Mary's children, while they seem to have so many other royal godparents. Likewise, neither Frederik nor Mary were asked for A3. I am sure that they are on friendly terms, but 'BFF' is not a logical deduction.

As for where the princess is staying: the Eikenhorst should have one or two guestrooms indeed. Huis ten Bosch has two annexes. I believe one annex is used for guests while one was where prince Claus and later his son Friso were nursed. I am not sure what state they are in now though. Noordeinde palace: I am not sure if they keep that one open at night; even in Q. Wilhelmina's days this was a struggle as she used to have the kitchens closed when prince Hendrik was staying there alone, forcing him to dine out (not a good idea ;)).

The Danish embassy on the Koninginnegracht is another option. But what I find most likely is that they put all the hotshots of the conference in one hotel. That is usually how it is done with conferences.

Duc_et_Pair said:
That is also why there is no "employer-employee" relationship between the Queen and her Hofdames.
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I am not sure that is completely true any longer. In Juliana's days it was indeed. Even in the 80-ties she would ring up her hofdames for company or when she felt like playing a game of cards in the middle of the night (they always came ;)). Under Beatrix -unsurprisingly- it became more professional and Mienthe Boelaard-Stheeman described it as a working relationship to journalist Jutta Chorus. But indeed they still do not get any pay, just a reimbursement for the costs.
 
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Marengo said:
The Daily Mail seems to be getting a bit too enthousiastic. Neither WA nor Maxima are godparents to one on Frederik and Mary's children, while they seem to have so many other royal godparents. Likewise, neither Frederik nor Mary were asked for A3. I am sure that they are on friendly terms, but 'BFF' is not a logical deduction.
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Daily Mail logical...? The DM writes many silly things that doesn't need to be taken seriously.
These two couples have always seemed to get along well. The twins are almost 5 and the three Dutch girls are older (?). There's always the possibility, that F&M and WA&M have become closer after the last kids were born. The photos from the past years certainly show a warm relationship.
 
Day 2

Crown Princess Mary also visited the International Criminal Court today:
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Afterwards Mary again arrived to the conference:
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Mary today held one of the key note speech:
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Mary visited the crisis center together with the Mary Foundation:
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Yesterday:

Michaelia Cash:
"Fantastic to meet Crown Princess Mary at 3 World Shelter - and inspiring to hear about work done by The Mary Foundation:"
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"Crown Princess Mary and I.
Picture together, she told me that the print was razed flat and preserved, I talked about the history, and it would be nice that she would show her family, and yes I believe they will do, I also thanked years for rewarding work she does for the UN, and what a wonderful woman, I am in love with Mary."

https://www.facebook.com/arnotaxoranjeboven/posts/463564420477937
 
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Mary holding the keynote speech:

"I find it perplexing that men are often erased from the conversation when we talk about violence against women. Men need to more actively take part in the discussion. Not as part of the problem, but as a part of the solution. This must be a joint agenda. The majority of men are not violent – we need that majority to challenge the minority, who are violent."

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Mary at the panel discussion about strengthening global and regional networks:
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Crown Princess Mary delivers speech at the Third World Conference Of Womens Shelters:

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BB article from Mary's visit the International Criminal Court today:
Kronprinsesse Mary i topsikret bygning | BILLED-BLADET

Mary must be back home in Denmark again as she has an event again already tomorrow morning in Copenhagen. Frederik must be back home in Denmark again now after his working visit in South Africa. I guess F&M with likely jetlags, tired feets and busy days will be very pleased to see their bed tonight.

TV2 News tonight covered Mary's and The Mary Foundation's work at the conference,
and TV2 News also interviewed Mary afterwards:

You can watch the interview here:
Kronprinsesse Mary: Kvinder skal ikke kæmpe kampen alene | Underholdning

A good one (but I haven't time to translate it, it's time for bed now...)
 
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thanks for all the links.
Yes busy week for them both.

a great speech by Mary :flowers:
 
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As chairman of the Mary Foundation Crown Princess Mary during her recent visit to a shelter for battered women met some of the residents who gave her their tough stories - behind closed doors.

TV2 News caught afterwards Crown Princess Mary to a talk after visiting the woman crisis center.

- Where do you do of these tough stories - inside yourself?

- That's a good question. I see it always as an enormous privilege that they will share their stories with me. I see them as immensely brave women who are willing to tell some of the most intimate experiences, and it touches me deeply, but it also strengthens me in my conviction about the work I'm doing, told Crown Princess Mary.

Listen to the entire TV2 interview with The Crown Princess here. The article has translated part of the interview:

Kronprinsesse Mary: Kvinder skal ikke kæmpe kampen alene | Underholdning
 
Summary of article in Billed Bladet #46, 2015.
Written by Marianne Singer.

The press coverage was massive when Queen Maxima and Mary arrived for the Global Network of Women's Shelters conference. Not least because this was the first appearance of Queen Maxima (QM) after she had to return from the official visit to China due to illness.
QM said to the press: Thank you very much for the many well wishes, it warms my heart. I'm a lot better, but I still need to find my strength. But I'm a lot better.

Indeed QM and Mary where scheduled to visit a women's shelter together in Leiden, but QM had to cancel due to her illness, so Mary was on her own.
Here she visited the shelter, Rosa Manus = pink hands.
The shelter is part of a Dutch concept of much more open shelters that are directly involved in the local community, rather than typical women's shelters that are more or less hidden away resembling forts. The involvement in the local community is considered beneficial for victims of abuse often combined with a therapeutic programme with the husband/partner of the woman who has been abused.
Mary was received with great warmth by the residents and she had a chat with four women of different nationality (*) about their personal issues. That was an emotional experience for both the women as well as Mary.

Mary was also shown around and she spoke with a number of experts in such crisis centers who told her about the experiences that has been made with Mary asking many questions.

Afterwards Mary said: "I'm always moved by stories the women tell. I see it as a huge privilege that they will share their story with me, because it's so intimate and personal. I find it enormously courageous that they stand up and help break the silence about violence. because that has to be broken".

Mary also met the former Miss World, Linor Arbargil, who champions against sexual abuse. She is a victim of rape herself. Shortly before she was crowned Miss World actually. And since then she has used that platform to fight sexual abuse.
After having seen part of a documentary about Linor Arbargil's story and heard a speech by her, Mary met Linor Arbargil and said afterwards: "She's an enormously warm person with a great personality. She's very inspiring and willing to use her own story to ensure her message gets out in the world.
She can help getting other women to follow her example and break the silence there is in regards to abuse/violence. We need as many different forces to take part in this as possible and to fight violence overall".

I have omitted the parts where Mary is together with QM, because that I see has already been well covered here.

(*) I see that the Netherlands share a problem with Denmark. That the majority of women who now seek shelter are immigrants.
 
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