Royal Dutch Calendar

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March 2011



March 3rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the awards ceremony of the Best Learning Company and Best Practice 2010 Trainer of the Netherlands in Rotterdam

March 6th - 7th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on a state visit to Oman

March 9th - 10th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on a state visit to Qatar

March 14th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the presentation of the Geuzen Medal in Vlaardingen

March 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the opening of a new building for people living with dementia in Zutphen

March 16th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new Hubertus Dune care center in Den Haag

March 17th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will atttend the celebration for the 1000th water and sanitation project in Bangladesh of the Max Foundation in Amsterdam

March 19th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the exhibition "Lucas van Leyden and the Renaissance" at the museum De Lakenhal in Leiden

March 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will open the permanent exhibition "Frog" in the Children's Book Museum in Den Haag

March 23rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Keukenhof 2011 together with Germany's Federal President Christian Wulff and wife

March 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the oration of Prof. Atul Kumar at the University in Utrecht

March 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the launch of the Dutch World Stop TB (Tuberculosis) Day in Oegstgeest

March 28th - 31st
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on an official visit to Vietnam

March 29th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new building of Cito in Arnhem. Cito develops examinations and tests for the education and professional practice

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April 2011



April 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima in her role as patron of Scouting Netherlands will attend the presentation ceremony of the new members of Orange 2011. Princess Benedikte of Denmark and King Carl Gustaf of Sweden will be present as well.

April 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Ariane will attend her first day at school

April 12th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the monuments Maallust and Klein Soestdijk in Veenhuizen

April 12th - 15th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on a state visit to Germany

April 18th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Society for Microbiology in Arnhem

April 19th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the the nature reserve Volgermeerpolder in north Amsterdam

April 27th
Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will honour fifty soldiers from the Defence Helicopter Command at the Gilze-Rijen airbase

April 28th
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien will hand out the prizes to the winners of the 23th National Violin Competition Oskar Back in Amsterdam

April 30th
The royal family will attend the Queen's Day 2011 in Thorn and Weert

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May 2011



May 4th and 5th
Their Royal Highness Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend several events concerning the Remembrance and Celebration of the National Liberation

May 6th - 11th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit Greenland on the invitation of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

May 7th
Their Royal Highness Queen Beatrix and Princess Máxima will open the exhibition "Máxima, 10 years in the Netherlands" in Apeldoorn

May 7th
Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the 20th anniversary celebration of the foundation SOS Dolphin in Harderwijk

May 9th - 13th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will travel to Senegal and Mali for her UN activities in Inclusive Finance

May 13th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the official opening of the new community school in Oude Pekela

May 14th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the 14th general meeting of the Heritage Society Heemschut in Den Haag

May 16th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will together with the Prime Minister open the "House of Europe" in Den Haag

May 17th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will hand out the Appeltjes van Oranje 2011 in Den Haag

May 18th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the residential Duinpark in Den Helder

May 18th
Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the official handover of the historic railway track Moerputtenbrug in ’s-Hertogenbosch

May 18th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the Money Matters parade in IJmuiden

May 20th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will visit the mental health institution in Altrecht

May 20th
Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will hand out the National Aviation Prize in Noordwijk

May 24th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will visit the region Flevoland

May 26th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the second edition of the International Sculpture Exhibition "ARTZUID 2011: The World Around, Equality in Diversity" in Amsterdam

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June 2011



June 1st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the 6th Biennial Kijkduin 2011, this year entitled "Chemistry - Creating New Worlds"

June 2nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the opening of the 64th edition of the Holland Festival in Amsterdam

June 5th - 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the The Tiffany Circle Women's Leadership Summit 2011 (as part of the American Red Cross) in Washington DC

June 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the exhibition "Den Haag under heaven - Contemporary sculpture from China"

June 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will start the nationwide summer activities for young people to avoid them dropping off from school

June 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the International Conference on Microfinance in Amsterdam

June 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the KlokHUIS at the Cascadepark in Almere

June 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the international annual conference of the European Microfinance Network in Amsterdam

June 10th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will award the scholarships from the United World Colleges (UWC) in Den Haag

June 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the annual presentation of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

June 16th
Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the theatre premiere of "Nie Swart Nie Wit Nie" in Culemborg

June 18th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the Hofvijver concert "Cirque Classique" in Den Haag

June 18th
Their Royal Highness The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the farewell mass for Bishop Van Luyn in Rotterdam

June 20th - 23rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 16th UNSGAB meeting in New York

June 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the international conference on physiotherapy in Amsterdam

June 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the conference "Social Performance Task Force" in ’s Hertogenbosch

June 22nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will take part in the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Association of Spiritual Caregivers in Health care (VGVZ) in Utrecht

June 22nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the 2nd introduction concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

June 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will receive the first memorial coin, 100 year Muntbuilding, at the mint in Utrecht

June 23rd
Their Royal Highness Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien will open the exhibition "Inwards & Onwards" by Anton Corbijn in Amsterdam

June 24th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in Den Bosch, a top clinical center for acute and specialist care

June 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will re-open the partly renovated Museum Park Orientalis

June 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open a modern glass art exhibition in and around Castle Cannenburch in Vaassen

June 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the show END OF SEASON in Arnhem

June 25th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend Veterans Day in Den Haag

June 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the jubilee conference of Importante, a project for female ambition, this year entitled "Women and Enterprise, working on participation" in Den Haag

June 29th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the celebration of 200 years of modern legal profession in the Netherlands in Den Haag

June 30th
His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn will open the renovated building of the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) in Maastricht

June 30th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the summer exhibition at the Royal Palce in Amsterdam

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July 2011



July 1st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the opening of the new Europol (European police) office in Den Haag

July 1st - 3rd
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the wedding celebrations of Prince Albert of Monaco and Princess Charlene in Monaco

July 2nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the naval review (vlootschouw) to mark the 100th anniversary of the society the 2 provinces at the Paterswoldsemeer in Haren

July 4th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima with their daughters will pose for the annual photosession at the holiday house in Italy

July 6th - 9th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 123rd session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Durban, South Africa.

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August 2011



August 8th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a concert of the European Union Youth Orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

August 18th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the opening of the 34th edition of the Xnoizz Flevo Festival, a Christian music festival, on the recreation ground Bussloo

August 19th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hold a speech at the 15th session of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) in Stockholm

August 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the Archaeology House in Alphen aan den Rijn

August 26th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the new equestrian building of the CHIO Rotterdam at the Rotterdam Manège

August 30th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open a new house for people dealing with domestic violence in Alkmaar

August 31st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the Orange Festival in Apeldoorn

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September 2011



September 1st
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the sports initiative ''de weg andersom'' (the way of mental health) in Amersfoort

September 1st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will make a working visit to ING in Amsterdam

September 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the new information center at the Canadian cemetery in the National Park, Sallandse Heuvelrug

September 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a gala concert to mark the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Society of Composers at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

September 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the Ecoduct Hoog Buurlo on the A1 motorway near Hoog Buurlo

September 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the 15th congress of the International Psychogeriatric Association in Den Haag

September 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien as chairwoman of the High Level Expert Group on Literacy will visit the International School of Den Haag

September 6th
His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn will attend the celebration for the 15th anniversary of the Prince Claus Fund

September 7th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the anniversary symposium of the War graves Foundation

September 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien as chairwoman of the High Level Expert Group on Literacy will speak at the International Literacy Day 2011 in Den Haag

September 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend the closing event of Literacy Week at the Theatre Carré in Amsterdam

September 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new headquarters of Van Leeuwen Buizen Groep in Zwijndrecht

September 13th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend 50th anniversary gala of the National Ballet in Amsterdam

September 15th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the new Prince Willem-Alexander Sports Hall in Epe

September 16th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Cancer Center at the University Medical Center Groningen

September 22nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the opening of 60 years World Music Contest in Kerkrade

September 23rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the first import terminal for liquefied natural gas in the Netherlands in Rotterdam

September 23rd - 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting in Washington

September 24th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the Remembrance Day for Violence Victims in the municipality of De Wolden (Drenthe)

September 30th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the jubilee symposium "Care for Independence" celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Princess Beatrix Fund

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October 2011



October 3rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the opening of the Brasil Festival Amsterdam

October 3rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will be present at the opening of the redesigned Amsterdam Stock Exchange trading floor

October 4th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the new visitor center of the pumping station Woudagemaal

October 5th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will open the new building of the Council of State in Den Haag

October 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the First European congress on ambulatory care for people with severe mental illness in Rotterdam

October 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the exhibition "L'Armonia Perfetta" (Perfect Harmony), a Mondrian exhibition in Rome, Italy

October 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new location of the Exodus House in Alkmaar, a care and aftercare center for former prisoners

October 7th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will hand out the Royal Prize for Painting 2011 in Amsterdam

October 7th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange, Princess Máxima, Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the gala performance of the dance company Introdans to mark the 40th anniversary of Introdans in Schouwburg Arnhem

October 8th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will unveil the restored vaulted ceiling painting "The Last Judgement" by Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen at the Grote Sint Laurens church in Alkmaar

October 11th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the celebration for the 175th anniversary of the Noordhoff Uitgevers company in Groningen

October 12th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will open the 25th Cinekid festival in Amsterdam, an international film, television and new media festival for young people

October 12th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new complex of Zorgplein Maaswaarden, that provides home care and day care in Wijk and Aalburg

October 13th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the youth event "Roots 2 Share: the future" in Den Haag, including a look back on his Greenland journey

October 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the jubilee exhibition of the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven

October 25th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the official opening of the new school complex of the Waldheim-secondary school and the Lyceum Baarnsch

October 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the Sling-4x4 Event in Utrecht, where businesses show how they deal with their role in society

October 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will inaugurate the new building of the diaconal ecumenical center Voice in the City of Haarlem

October 26th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the conference "Development in Action" in Amsterdam

October 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend a gala concert to mark the 80th anniversary of Cristina Deutekom in Amsterdam

October 28th - Novemer 6th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will make an official visit to all six islands in the Caribbean that are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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November 2011



till November 6th
Official visit to all six islands in the Caribbean that are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, see above

November 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the Money Week 2011 at the Ministry of Finance in Den Haag

November 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the first biomass fermentation of Sugar Union in Dinteloord

November 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the opening conference of the European Office of The Sustainability Consortium in Den Haag

November 9th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hand out the Erasmus Prize 2011 to Catalan architect and urban planner Joan Busquets in Amsterdam

November 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the first coin made for the Money Week at the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht

November 11th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a celebration for the 200 years of judicial power in the Netherlands in Den Haag

November 15th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the celebartions for the 100th anniversary of FloraHolland in Scheveningen

November 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will make a visit to the Entrepreneurs House in Deventer

November 16th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will re-open the renovated Drents Museum in Assen and attend the opening exhibition "The Golden Age of China"

November 17th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the jubilee symposium of the foundation The Gate, Youth Institutions

November 17th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the 16th ballet gala of the foundation Dancers '79 in Amsterdam

November 18th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the anniversary meeting of the Arthritis Association in Den Haag

November 18th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Clean Water sanitation project in Sneek

November 18th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the world premiere of the Dutch documentary "The Sound of the Bandoneón" in Amsterdam

November 21st
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the movie pemiere of "Nova Zembla" in Amsterdam

November 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the exhibition "Sketches of Beauty" at the Sint-Jans church in Gouda

November 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will speak at the conference on sustainability in the financial sector at the Nyenrode Business Universiteit in Breukelen

November 24th - December 1st
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the Red Cross meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

November 25th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the 50 years celebration of the University of Twente (UT) at the Wilmink Theater in Enschede

November 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend the congress ''Language learning" in Breda

November 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will hand out the Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Prize 2011 in Amsterdam

November 28th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will receive the President of Slovenia

November 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new care and residential area Zonnehuis Oostergast in Zuidhorn

November 29th - December 1st
The President of Mali will make an official visit to the Netherlands

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December 2011



December 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend a symposium on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the National Association
of General Practitioners in Den Haag

December 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the presentation of the "More than hands" awards on the occasion of the National Day of Volunteers in Amsterdam

December 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will be present at the jubilee of the Foundation Allegoeds in Lunteren

December 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the new factory of FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe BV in Tilburg

December 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the closing ceremony of the project "Thousand and one power" in Utrecht

December 12th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend a meeting to mark the 50th anniversary of Lotto in Den Haag

December 15th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the Kingdom concert on the occasion of Kingdom Day in Lelystad

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January 2012



January 8th - 12th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will make a state visit to the United Arab Emirates (January 8th - 10th) and Oman (January 10th - 12th)

January 8th
Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will unveil a monument commemorating the victims of a train disaster that took place 50 years ago in Harmelen, municipality of Woerden

January 13th - 16th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange as a member of the IOC will attend the Youth Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria

January 19th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit a music project at the music school in Landgraaf

January 19th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will pay a visit to the volunteer organization Stichting Wilskracht (Foundation Willpower) in Reuver that helps women who experienced violence

January 21st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the premiere of the musical "The New Ice Age" in Rotterdam

January 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima together with Prime Minister Rutte will be present at the 50 years anniversary gala of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands that will be held at the City Hall in Den Haag

January 25th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the farewell ceremony of Mr. H.D. Tjeenk Willink as vice president of the Council of State in Den Haag

January 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the new city hall of the municipality of Zaanstad in Zaandam

January 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will speak at a symposium on libraries "Promotion of Reading: that does the library"

January 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend 2nd edition of the green fashion competition during the Amsterdam fashion week

January 27th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the three yards of the Damen Shipyards Group in Vlissingen

January 28th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the 13th Holland Dance Festival in Den Haag

January 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open an informational healthcare market for caregivers of chronically ill patients in Enschede

January 30th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will receive the first copy of the Red Cross' new postage stamp in Den Haag

January 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the official launch of the programme "WE keep on growing" in Den Haag - WE stands for Women Entrepreneurs Mentors

January 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will launch the project "Drop Down language" to mark the 10th anniversary of Cyber ​​Souk in Amsterdam

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February 2012



February 4th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the National Commission for Development Strategy in Amsterdam

February 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the professional orientation fair "Westland On Stage" for secondary school pupils in the De Leuningjes complex in Poeldijk

February 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the Machiavelli prize 2011 in Den Haag "for outstanding communication skills over the last ten years in her work as a princess". His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will be present as well

February 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the VMBO school building De Kluiverboom in Groningen

February 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will give a guest lecture on money matters at the Welzijn College van ROC Midden Nederland in Utrecht

February 13th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the exhibition "Sweet & Salty" in Rotterdam

February 27th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Java Sea at the monastery of Den Haag

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March 2012



March 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the microfinancing report "A Billion to Gain? The Dutch Contributions to the microfinance sector" in Amsterdam

March 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will launch a new national project of WOMEN Inc.. in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, municipalities and local organizations in Amsterdam

March 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the Female Talent TOP Society Breakfast in Den Haag

March 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the Olympic Flame annual conference 2012 at the National Sports Center Papendal in Arnhem

March 11th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend an anniversary concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Master Pianists series in Amsterdam

March 14th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will participate in a test sail of the patrol ship Holland of the Royal Navy

March 16th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the National Career Fair in Amsterdam

March 17th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be present at a concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev in Paris. Princess Máxima is patron of the orchestra since 2005

March 17th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the theatre premiere of the play "Unseen", on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of a center for blind and visually impaired elderly in Wolfheze

March 19th
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Margriet and Princess Laurentien will hand out the ECF Princess Margriet Award in Brussels

March 19th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hold a speech on the Water Board Day 2012 in Den Haag

March 19th - 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the "Inclusive Finance" meeting in Basel, Switzerland

March 20th - 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will make a state visit to Luxembourg

March 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Foundation for the National Tree Day in Cuijk en Boxmeer

March 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Keukenhof 2012 in Lisse

March 22nd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the celebrations of the World Water Day 2012 in Wageningen

March 27th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the National Committee 4 and 5 May in Amsterdam

March 27th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will as Patron of the Oranje Fonds make a working visit to the municipality of Barendrecht

March 28th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new Zonnehuis Group Amstelland

March 30th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will unveil a monument of William of Orange as Father of the Nation and paterfamilias at the Abbey in Middelburg

March 31st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the refurbished museum in Brielle

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April 2012



April 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the Dutch Open Air Museum "Amsterdam Westerstraat" in Arnhem on the occasion of the museum's centenary

April 4th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the Floriade 2012, the official World Horticultural Expo in Venlo

April 4th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will be present at the celebration of the merger of the Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (CEME) in Yerseke and the Royal Dutch Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on Texel

April 4th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new film museum EYE in Amsterdam

April 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will give a speech at the first research conference on micro-insurance in the Netherlands at the University of Twente in Enschede

April 11th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the official opening of the Pharma filter at the Reinier de Graaf Hospital

April 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will receive the first copy of the book "Dutch New York: a guide to the heritage of New Netherlands"

April 17th - 19th
The President of the Republic of Turkey Abdullah Gul and his wife will be on a state visit to the Netherlands

April 19th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the information center about nature and culture IJssel Den Nul in in Den Nul

April 20th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC.

April 21st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the renovated Madurodam, a miniature city located in Scheveningen, Den Haag

April 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the international horse show Indoor Brabant 2012
with FEI World Cup Finals in 's-Hertogenbosch

April 24th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new National Carillon and Nature Museum named "Peel & Clock Museum" in Asten

April 24th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the national finals of the Masonry and Add championship in Barneveld

April 24th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will be present at the 13th Ernst & Young Hofstad lecture at the Grote Kerk in Den Haag

April 25th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the restored Palace Oranienbaum and the exhibition Dutch Design - House of Orange

April 30th
The royal family will attend the Queen's Day at the province of Utrecht, in Rhenen and Veenendaal

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May 2012



May 4th - 5th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the Ceremonies of Remembrance and Celebration of the National Liberation in Amsterdam

May 4th
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Margriet and Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the commemoration ceremony in Rhenen for soldiers and conscripts who since 1940 have fallen for the Kingdom

May 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hand out the King Willem I Award 2012 and the King Willem I Award for Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2012 at the Floriade in Venlo

May 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the sewage purification installation in Epe

May 8th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the opening ceremony of the international Annual Meeting of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Rotterdam

May 11th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the Major Bosshardt Anniversary Gala at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam

May 12th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the Four Freedoms Awards in Middelburg

May 15th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will hand out the Appeltjes van Oranje award 2012 in Den Haag

May 16th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the CliniClowns College in Amersfoort

May 20th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the jubilee concert by violinist Emmy Verhey in Den Haag

May 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend a concert of the Dutch Royal Concert Hall orchestra in London

May 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the lecture of Prof. Stella Quimbo at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new provincial house of Friesland

May 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new location of the Appel arts centre in Amsterdam

May 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the first Money Counter guide in money matters in Amersfoort

May 23rd
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will inaugurate the restored Carpet Room at the museum Huis van Gijn in Dordrecht

May 25th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will be present at the opening of the Blue Flag season 2012 at the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk aan Zee

May 29th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the 19th edition of the Den Haag Sculpture

May 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will view a prologue of an educational and social media project on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni at the Montessori Lyceum

May 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the lecture on microfinance by Prof. Gert van Dijk at the Nyenrode Business University in Breukelen

May 30th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hold a speech at the Rio aan de Maas meeting in Rotterdam

May 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open Royal Delft Experience, part of the Royal Delft pottery factory in Delft

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June 2012



June 1st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the 4th Insurance Europe conference in Amsterdam

June 1st
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the 65th edition of the Holland Festival in Amsterdam

June 1st
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the Museum Vrijthof in Maastricht

June 4th - 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend a governing board meeting of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland

June 5th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the centenary conference of the Association of Dutch Municipalities in Den Haag

June 5th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange as Patron of the Orange Fond will visit the new house of the foundation in Varsselder-Veldhunten

June 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the international conference "Access to Health Insurance" at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam

June 6th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the final concert of the Children Making Music programme in Amsterdam

June 6th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the inauguration of the Zelling Gouderak district in the municipality Ouderkerk

June 6th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will receive the Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia and the Ambassador of the Republic of Honduras in Den Haag

June 6th - 7th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will receive Mr. Seehofer, President of the Bundesrat of the Federal Republic of Germany and Prime Minister of Bavaria

June 7th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the new production hall of Urenco Nederland B.V. in Almelo

June 7th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the first geothermal centre in the Netherlands for the heating of households in the district of Den Haag Southwest

June 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new mother-child center of the Bronovo Hospital in Den Haag

June 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the 10th edition of the "Mission Olympic - The School Final" in Amsterdam

June 10th - 14th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 18th meeting of the Advisory Board of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) in Panama

June 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit the Pop music project at the elementary school De Streek in Tjalleberd

June 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the exhibition The Orange and the national regional costumes" at the Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn

June 13th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new building of the museum Sjoel Elburg

June 13th - 15th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will visit Turkey in connection with the 400 years anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey

June 16th
The Royal Family will attend the wedding of Princess Carolina de Bourbon de Parme and Albert Brenninkmeijer in Florence, Italy

June 17th - 18th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the G20 meeting on Inclusive Finance in Mexico

June 18th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the EXPO 2012 in South Korea

June 19th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will hand out the silver carnations of the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund in Amsterdam

June 20th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will officially open the new provincial of the province of Utrecht

June 21st
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open Van Oord's new headquarters in Rotterdam. Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors is a global builder of dredging, marine and offshore projects

June 22nd
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the renewed Eastern Island in Hoorn

June 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the premiere of the show "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic" in Amsterdam

June 23rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Royal Watersport Society Loosdrecht

June 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the show End of Season of the modern ballet company Introdans in Arnhem

June 25th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will visit the TEDxBinnenhof Catwalk for Innovationin Den Haag

June 26th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will re-open the restored Fortress of Hellevoetsluis

June 26th - 28th
The President of the Italian Republic, His Excellency Giorgio Napolitano and his wife will be on a state visit to the Netherlands

June 28th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the final concert of the 65th edition of the Holland Festival in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

June 28th
His Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange will open the exhibition 'King Louis Napoleon & his Royal Palace' at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam

June 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the exhibition "Painting Canada – Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven" at the Groninger Museum

June 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Maxima will attend the launch of TREFI.nl, a Dutch platform for small business

June 29th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the 11th World Championships Meet and Pops of the World Skydiving Parachutes in Teuge

June 30th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will be present at the Dutch Veterans Day in Den Haag

June 30th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend he theatre performance "How expensive was the sugar?" in Amsterdam

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July 2012



July 4th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a gala in honour of the 80th birthday of Hans van Manen at the Music Theatre in Amsterdam

July 4th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the third introductory concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam

July 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the exhibition "Life in the country" at the Museum Broeker Veiling in Langedijk

July 6th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will pay a visit to the Friesland region

July 11th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will give the starting signal for the conclusion of the seawall of Maasvlakte 2

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August 2012



July 24th - August 12th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the Olympic Games in London

August 20th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a concert of the European Youth Orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

August 24th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the closing of the 6th European Academy of Forensic Science Conference (EAFS2012)

August 25th
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, Princess Laurentien and Prince Constantijn will attend the premiere of the concert "LIFE: a Journey Through Time" in Amsterdam

August 30th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend "Soldier of Orange - The Musical" organized for wounded soldiers at the former naval airbase Valkenburg

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September 2012



September 1st
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 25th national commemoration for the Dutch soldiers who fell in the period 1945 to 1962 during the fighting in the former Dutch East Indies and New Guinea - the ceremony will take place in Roermond

September 4th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the meeting "The digital age, a golden age for citizens worldwide?" in Amsterdam

September 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Maastricht School of Management

September 13th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the family business Vencomatic and will open Venco Campus in Eersel

September 14th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the International Film Festival Film by the Sea in Vlissingen

September 17th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will be present at the celebrations for the 5th anniversary of the organization Women on Wings in Austerlitz

September 17th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Helicopter Olympics in Wijk aan Zee

September 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the new Woman Mother Child Centre at the Máxima Medical Center

September 20th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the conference "Peace for humanity in the 21st century" in Den Haag

September 22nd
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will visit the playground De Wiebert for Burendag (Neighbours' Day) in Uden

September 22nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the opening of the cultural complex the New Kolk in Assen

September 22nd
Their Royal Highnesses Queen Beatrix, Princess Laurentien and Prince Constantijn will attend the re-opening of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam

September 23rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will be present at the road race for 'Men elite' of the Cycling World Championship in Berg en Terblijt

September 24th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the opening of the 30th International Congress for Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Maastricht

September 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will be in New York to present her third annual report on her activities as a special advocate of Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon and will launch the event "Better than Cash"

September 25th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will launch the Children's Stamp Promo 2012 at Eikenhorst in Wassenaar

September 26th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will visit the Eurojust in Den Haag

September 27th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the extended Combi Terminal Twente BV (CTT) in Hengelo

September 27th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hand out six international awards in the field of science and art and five prizes for young Dutch scientists in Amsterdam

September 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit Qredits Microfinanciering Nederland and the pension market for entrepreneurs in the context of Pensioen3daagse

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October 2012



October 2nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a presentation of the Board for the Protection of Human Rights at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht

October 2nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the exhibition "Point de Vue, 200 years Art Academy 's-Hertogenbosch" at the former Stedelijk Museum' s-Hertogenbosch

October 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the exhibition MixMax Brasil at the Tropen museum Junior in Amsterdam

October 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit the Directory Main North in Drentse Gasselternijveen

October 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the handover of a retinal camera to the Medical Center Alkmaar (MCA) in Alkmaar

October 4th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be present at the annual conference of the Royal Dutch Society for Veterinary Medicine in Nieuwegein

October 4th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the centennial congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) in Amsterdam

October 4th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will speak at "Imagining Europe" in Amsterdam

October 4th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will open the building Boekenberg Spijkenisse

October 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the exhibition "The story of the totem pole" at the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden

October 10th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will baptize the new pilot vessel Polaris at the Wilhelmina Quay in Rotterdam

October 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the book "Being proud of who you are" by the Reading Club for Children at Eikenhorst in Wassenaar

October 12th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will hand out the Royal Awards for Painting 2012 in Amsterdam

October 23rd - 25th
The President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano will pay a state visit to the Netherlands

October 23rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Jewish Historical Museum, the 25th anniversary of the museum in the current synagogue complex and the festive launch of the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam

October 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the conference "Africa Works!" in Zeist

October 31st
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Sarcoidosis Center at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam