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Her Majesty looks nice & tanned!
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It seems that she is wearing a new small sapphire pendant on her necklace. I can't remember seeing it before at least.
August 31st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the Orange Festival in Apeldoorn
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Queen Beatrix attended a gala concert to mark the celebration of the 100th anniversary of
the Dutch Society of Composers at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, September 3rd, 2011.
The event was disturbed by a man who climbed on stage, but who got quickly arrested by the police.
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** telegraaf.nl: Verwarde man klimt op podium bij Koningin Beatrix ** translation **
One of the 250,000 confidential diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks earlier this week includes the private phone numbers of Queen Beatrix and former prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
The whistleblower website Wikileaks initially said it would publish the cables in collaboration with five international newspapers, in a gradual and careful manner. However, the complete unredacted WikiLeaks file can now be downloaded from the internet.
The cable labelled 04THEHAGUE1017 from April 2004 lists the private and office phone numbers of important Dutch officials, including former defence minister Henk Kamp, former foreign minister Ben Bot and Queen Beatrix:
"NAME OF HEAD OF STATE: QUEEN BEATRIX TITLE: HER MAJESTY QUEEN BEATRIX, QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, PRINCESS OF ORANGE-NASSAU, ETC., ETC.;"
HM attended the jubilee celebrations in Utrecht today of the Foundation named after her and of which she is Patron since 1957,the Princess Beatrix Foundation.
HM was dressed in black,might be in light of the passing away of the Grande Dame of Dutch Liturature,Hella Haasse,who was a dear friend of Queen Beatrix.Hella Haasse passed away aged 93 yesterday but who's death was announced by her publisher this morning.
HM The Queen has send a telegram of condolence to the children of Hella Haasse.
Utrecht this afternoon:
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Hella Haasse,Grande Dame of Dutch Liturature.R.I.P.
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Courtesy ANP.
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Queen Beatrix has officially re-opened the Scheepvaartmuseum (Netherlands Maritime Museum)
in Amsterdam today, October 1st. The museum had been renovated during the last years.
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This afternoon HM will hand-out the annual Royal Award for Free Painting at the Royal Palace,Amsterdam.One of the annual haydays in the Royal agenda for HM,an accomplished artist herself and genuinely interested in Art by others.
The Prize was instituted by HM King Willem III in 1871 and consists these days of 6500 euro for each of the choosen artists.
Here are some more pics of yesterday's award ceremony:
** at5.nl: Koningin Beatrix reikt de vrije kunstschilders prijzen uit ** anp gallery ** belga **
Today, October 8, Queen Beatrix has unveiled the restored ceiling painting "The Last Judgement"
in the Grote Sint Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. It was created in 1518 by Jabob Cornelisz van Oostsanen.
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