Royal Dutch Calendar

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November 2012



November 1st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will speak at the conference "Collaborate on international food stability" in Den Haag

November 1st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the Cultural Quarter in Sneek

November 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the jubilee concert of the Residentie Bach Ensembles in Den Haag

November 3rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the departure of the historic three-masted schooner 'Oosterschelde', starting from the home port Rotterdam for a world tour

November 3rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will be present at the Sports Parade Papendal in Arnhem

November 7th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Water Management Centre Netherland

November 9th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will make a regional visit to the province of North Brabant

November 10th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will visit Istanbul as part of the celebrations marking 400 years of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey

November 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the conference "The Future of Banking" in Amsterdam

November 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will launch the 3rd edition 'Week of the money' for children

November 14th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Criminal Court in Den Haag

November 14th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will hand out the Erasmus Prize 2012 to philosopher Daniel C. Dennett in Amsterdam

November 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit a class in Zoetermeer that participates in the 'Week of the money' for children

November 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will speak at the 8th edition of the conference Growing SMEs, Connect, Exchange, Invest (SMEs: Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in Den Haag

November 15th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the morning session of the Annual Conference ECP at the Circus Theatre in Scheveningen

November 16th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will receive an honorary degree from the McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada

November 19th - 23rd
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on an official visit to Brazil

November 20th - 22nd
The President of the Slovak Republic Ivan Gašparovič will pay a state visit to the Netherlands

November 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will hand out the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Prijs 2012 in Amsterdam

November 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend a symposium in Arnhem held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Het Dorp

November 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the presentation of the 1000th apprenticeship of the Action Plan apprenticeships in 's-Hertogenbosch

November 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the exhibition "Wilhelmina's Life Evening" at the Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn

November 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will give the opening speech at a symposium to mark the 10th anniversary of the Prince Claus Chair

November 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the International Supply Management Congress "The impact of sustainable supply chains" in Amsterdam

November 30th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will present the Prize of Dutch Literature to Flemish poet Leonard Nolens in Amsterdam

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December 2012



December 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend an Extraordinary Gala Presentation on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam

December 4th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the Life Sciences Park in Oss

December 6th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new railway line the Hanzelijn

December 6th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be present at the final meeting of the 10th anniversary of the Orange Fund in Den Bosch

December 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will rename the environmentally friendly gas tanker Coral Energy of the Dutch gasvervoerder Anthony Veder in Rotterdam

December 12th
The Royal Family will attend the annual Prins Claus Award 2012 in Amsterdam

December 13th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will offer a lunch to a selection of Dutch people who have distinguished themselves by a special achievement

December 13th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will give a speech at the annual conference of public libraries in the Netherlands

December 14th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend a conference of the Collaborative Fund for the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom in Den Haag

December 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the celebrations of the 120th anniversary of Koninklijke Gazelle I Dieren

December 15th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the 7th Kingdom Kingdom Day Concert in Rotterdam

December 16th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a dinner of the Multilateral Centre for European Studies in Düsseldorf, Germany

December 18th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange, Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will receive the Dutch medalists of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 in Amsterdam

December 18th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the foundation Move in Utrecht

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January 2013



January 15th - 16th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima, her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the annual New Year's receptions in Amsterdam

January 21st - 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on a state visit to Brunei

January 24th - 25th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will be on a state visit to Singapore

January 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will read at the school Brede Buurtschool De Krullevaar in Den Haag as part of the National Reading Breakfast event

January 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Annette will open the exhibition 'Step Outside'' of Würth and the Special Arts Foundation Netherlands in 's-Hertogenbosch

January 30th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will speak at the conference Feeding the World in Amsterdam

January 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit a workshop of Probation in Arnhem

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February 2013



February 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the exhibition "Dutch masters from New York" at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem

February 5th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the employment programme Real Men in Rotterdam

February 6th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will visit the company VDL Groep in Eindhoven

February 7th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the new town hall of Central Delfland

February 13th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will hand out diplomas to seven volunteer firefighters from Central and West Brabant at the safety training center in Tilburg

February 13th
His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard will be present at the Anner Award 2013 in the New Church in Groningen

February 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the WOMEN Inc. Festival 2013 in Amsterdam

February 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the first copy of the book "A world without cervical cancer" in Leiden

February 27th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will visit the Royal Home for Old Soldiers and Bronbeek Museum to mark its 150th anniversary

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March 2013



March 1st
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the association Rural Youth WA (PJG) in Toldijk, a forum for the development of young people in rural areas

March 6th - 7th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the UN meeting "Water and disasters" in New York

March 7th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a meeting on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the High Commissioner on National Minorities in Den Haag

March 8th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the exhibition "Peter the Great, an inspired Tsar" in Amsterdam

March 12th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the European School Bergen

March 13th
His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn will attend the award ceremony of the Geuzenpenning

March 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will open the Day of Literature, a one-day literature festival for young people in Rotterdam

March 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will open the international art festival 'Yes of course - how art saves the world' in Den Haag

March 15th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend a jubilee concert to mark the 150th anniversary of the North Dutch Orchestra (NNO) in Groningen

March 15th - 16th
The Royal Family will participate in the annual NL Doet events

March 19th
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Margriet and Princess Laurentien will attend the ceremony of the ECF Princess Margriet Award 2013 in Brussels

March 19th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the inauguration of Pope Francis I at the Vatican

March 21st
The Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan will visit the Netherlands and will be received by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix

March 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the jubilee exhibition in the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem

March 22nd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will give a speech at the celebration of International World Water Day at the World Forum in Den Haag

March 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the new school building of the Mytylschool and the Noteboomschool in Amsterdam

March 27th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will decorate the banner of the Royal Air Force

March 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open 'Artis in Bloom' on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of Artis in Amsterdam

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April 2013



April 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will receive the first stamps "1001 Women", a collection of ten stamps showing portraits of notable women in the Dutch history

April 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will attend an extraordinary Gala Presentation on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam

April 3rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will launch the new production series of DAF trucks, developed for the Euro 6 emission requirements

April 4th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will officially open the new office of GasTerra in Groningen

April 5th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the new Philips museum in Eindhoven

April 8th
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will be on a visit to the Netherlands

April 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima as special advocate of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in the field of inclusive finance for development will give the opening speech at the celebration of the fifth anniversary of The Currency Exchange Fund at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam

April 10th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend the celebrations for the 125 anniversary of the Concertgebouw and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam

April 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will unveil an artwork to mark the 100th anniversary of Burgers' Zoo

April 11th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix together with their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will attend a concert that marks the start of the celebration of 300 years Treaty of Utrecht

April 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will attend the Week of the Entrepreneur at the Beatrix Theater in Utrecht

April 13th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the renovated Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

April 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Holland America Friendship Foundation (HAFF) in Den Haag

April 18th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the new European Heinz Innovation Center in Nijmegen

April 23rd
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will visit the Show Band Horn in Horn

April 23rd
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will plant a royal lime tree in Den Haag to celebrate the upcoming royal throne change

April 24th
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will open the exhibition "Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens - A Golden Heritage" at the Grote Kerk in Den Haag

April 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima will launch the nationwide 'Girlsday' for natural sciences and technology in Den Haag

April 25th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open "The Next Web Conference" at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam

April 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Orange Cycle, a 230-kilometer border cycle route that will travel past Apeldoorn, Bad Bentheim, Lingen and Diepenheim

April 25th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will attend the seminar "Should we stay or should we go? On the future of Europe and the Eurozone" in Den Haag. It'll be the farewell seminar CPB director Teulings

April 26th
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima will open the King Games, a national sports day for pupils at primary school

April 26th
His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange will open the rowing course Eendragtspolder

April 27th
His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn will attend the award ceremony for the World Press Photo of the Year 2012 in Amsterdam

April 28th
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien will present the prizes of the Oskar Back Violin Competition in Amsterdam

April 29th
A speech by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix will be broadcasted on Netherlands 1 and Radio 1

April 30th
The Royal Family will attend the ceremonies of the abdication of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and the inauguration of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander in Amsterdam

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May 2013



May 4th and 5th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the ceremonies of the Commemoration Day and the Liberation Day in Amsterdam

May 15th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the renovated Ministry of Defence in Den Haag

May 15th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the annual international meeting of the CGAP in Amsterdam

May 16th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the award ceremony of the Appeltjes van Oranje 2013 in Amsterdam

May 16th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend a dinner as part of the congress of the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) in Den Haag

May 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the new museum Villa Mondrian in Winterswijk

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit the children's hospital Erasmus MC - Sophia in Rotterdam on the occasion of its 150th anniversary

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the inaugural lecture of Professor Aylin Küntay at the University of Utrecht

May 22nd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the renovated Ministry of Economic Affairs in Den Haag

May 23rd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the Alexander Monro Hospital in Bilthoven that focuses on breast cancer care

May 24th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Luxembourg

May 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will unveil the Fishermen's Names Monument in Scheveningen

May 24th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the Noordbrabants Museum and Stedelijk Museum' s-Hertogenbosch in 's-Hertogenbosch

May 27th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Den Haag

May 28th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Groningen and Drenthe

May 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will be present at the ceremony of the European Inventor Award 2013

May 29th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will inaugurate the new building of the Fioretticollege in Hillegom

May 29th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend the national finals of the National Reading Competition in Utrecht

May 29th - 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend a Red Cross meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

May 30th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Gelderland and Utrecht

May 31st
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will inaugurate a new building of the museum of art in Zwolle

May 31st
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the Court of Appeal Arnhem Leeuwarden

May 31st
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will hold a speech at a symposium of the platform "Pointer in money matters" in Den Haag about the importance of financial education

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June 2013



June 1st
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the opening of the 66th edition of the Holland Festival in Amsterdam

June 3rd - 4th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Germany

June 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open a large exhibition of contemporary Russian sculpture as part of this year's The Hague Sculpture

June 7th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Thomas House, a small-scale housing for adults with intellectual disabilities in Houten

June 11th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will visit the Neighborhood Vegetable Green Forest in Tilburg

June 12th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit the provinces of Limburg and North Brabant

June 14th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit the provinces of Friesland and North Holland

June 15th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the Air Force Days at Volkel Air Base

June 18th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will visit the Generation Garden in Den Haag

June 18th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will hand out the Silver Carnations "Zilveren Anjers" of the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund in Amsterdam

June 19th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit the provinces of Flevoland and Overijssel

June 20th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the togetherness-day of the Royal Navy. This day is dedicated to the celebration of the 525th anniversary of the Navy and also marks the start of the joint event Sail / Navy Days Den Helder

June 20th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will give a speech at a meeting of the International Financial Action Group in Oslo

June 21st
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit the provinces of New Zealand and South Holland

June 22nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the performance END OF SEASON of Introdans in Arnhem

June 25th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Denmark

June 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the exhibition "The Palace and Dam Square - Four centuries at the heart of Amsterdam's canals" in Amsterdam

June 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Limburg Historians and Antiquarian Society in Maastricht

June 28th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit the RoboCup 2013, the world championship for intelligent robots, in Eindhoven

June 28th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the Startup Bootcamp Demo Day in Amsterdam

June 29th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend Veterans Day together with Prime Minister Rutte in Den Haag

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July 2013



July 1st
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend a commemoration at the National Slavery Memorial in Amsterdam

July 5th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the Máximapark, a 300-hectare green area in the middle of the Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht

July 10th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit the United Kingdom

July 14th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) Utrecht 2013 at the Stadion Galgenwaard

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August 2013



August 24th
Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the restored Dokje of Perry in Vlissingen and will attend the maritime event Sail de Ruyter 2013

August 28th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend a reception marking the start of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Peace Palace in Den Haag

August 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend a concert by the European Union Youth Orchestra at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

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September 2013



September 2nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the new building Orion at the Wageningen University and will attend the opening of the Academic Year

September 3rd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the HISWA, the 30th edition of the Amsterdam Boat Show

September 4th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the renovated tropical greenhouse complex in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden

September 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the opening concert of the 18th edition of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival

September 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will open the 9th Literacy Week in the Efteling theme park in Kaatsheuvel

September 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the wind farm Zuidlob in the municipality of Zeewolde

September 13th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the new museum building of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden

September 18th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will be on an official visit to Spain

September 19th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new Palace of Justice in Amsterdam

September 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will inaugurate a new building of the Gelders Archive in Arnhem

September 27th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the opening of the European Cancer Congress 2013 in Amsterdam

September 29th - October 2nd
The President of Israel Shimon Peres will make an official visit to the Netherlands

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October 2013



October 1st
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the third edition of the Pensioen3daagse in Utrecht

October 1st
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive Shimon Peres, President of Israel, in Den Haag

October 1st
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend a symposium to mark the 175th anniversary of the Supreme Court at the Koninklijke Schouwburg in Den Haag

October 1st
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will host a state banquet for Shimon Peres, President of Israel, in Den Haag

October 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will attend the 7th conference on sustainable living in Utrecht

October 2nd
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Norway

October 3rd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive the President of the Republic of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, in Den Haag

October 4th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will hand out the Royal Awards for Painting 2013 and will open the exhibition of the winning works

October 5th
The Royal Family will attend the church wedding of Prince Jaime de Bourbon Parme and Viktória Cservenyák in Apeldoorn

October 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the opening of the exhibition "Petra.Miracle in the desert" at the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden

October 8th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will visit the initiative "Peeking at the neighbors" in Oosterwolde

October 11th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new campus of the United World Colleges in Maastricht

October 14th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Sweden

October 15th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new public centre of the National Archives in Den Haag

October 16th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will visit the 5th edition of the Westland Event

October 16th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the FrieslandCampina Innovation Centre in Wageningen

October 17th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the exhibition "Atlas of Neederlanden: the dawn of the Kingdom" at the University of Amsterdam

October 17th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the new Isala Hospital in Zwolle

October 17th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Ministry of Security and Justice in Den Haag

October 18th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the exhibition "Kazimir Malevich and the Russian avant-garde" at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

October 29th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will inaugurate the scannerlab Brains Unlimited at the Maastricht Health Campus

October 29th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive the President of Croatia Ivo Josipović

October 30th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the final chord of the European project "Requiem for Auschwitz" in Tilburg

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November 2013



November 1st
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the new building of the Mayor Walda Comprehensive School in Nes on Ameland

November 2nd
The Royal Family will attend the memorial for Prince Friso at the Old Church in Delft

November 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the new building of the Basic Foundation in Doorn, a training and aftercare center for active and post actively serving military personnel

November 5th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend a charity performance of the musical "He believes in me" in Amsterdam

November 5th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the presentation of the Prix de Rome 2013 in Amsterdam

November 6th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will speak at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the building of the Stock Exchange in Amsterdam

November 6th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander as Patron of the Erasmus Prize Foundation will hand out the Erasmus Prize 2013 to German Jürgen Habermas

November 7th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will visit the orphanage Buren on the occasion of its 400th anniversary

November 8th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the 100th Dies Natalis of the Erasmus University Rotterdam

November 8th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will receive Their Majesties King Philippe and Queen Mathilde for a one-day visit

November 8th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the fall conference "Woman 1813-1913-2013" of the Dutch Royal Historical Society in Den Haag and will visit the exhibition which connects to the conference

November 9th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Moscow, Russia

November 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the jubilee symposium "From warehouse to house sermon" o the occasion of the 425th anniversary of the Lutheran city of Amsterdam

November 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the presentation 'Katinka van Rood, regal sculptress' at the Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn

November 10th
Their Royal Highnessses Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien will attend a concert in honour of the 25th anniversary of the National Music Fund in Den Haag

November 11th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will hand out the Prince Bernhard Culture Prize 2013 to garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf in Amsterdam

November 12th - 21st
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit all six islands in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

November 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the new construction of the St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht

November 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentin will hold the opening speech at a language conference in Breda

November 15th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the celebration of the 125th anniversary of ARCADIS and Royal Dutch Heidemaatschappij in Amsterdam

November 22nd - 23rd
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit Colombia and Venezuela

November 26th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the new barracks of the Royal Military Police at Schiphol

November 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the jubilee conference of PUM (Program Managers Broadcast) Netherlands senior experts

November 27th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive the first stamps with a portrait of himself as King in Den Haag

November 28th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend a jubilee conference of Aedes, the association of housing corporations

November 28th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive the first set of three biographies of the Dutch Kings William I, William II and William III at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam

November 30th
The Royal Family will attend the start of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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December 2013



December 2nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the placement of a 25-foot-tall Norway spruce with patients of the Sophia Children's Hospital in Rotterdam

December 3rd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz

December 3rd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend a symposium on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Autism Café in Leiden

December 4th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new headquarters of Applikon Biotechnology BV at the Biotech Campus in Delft

December 9th - 13th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima as special advocate of the Secretary-General of the United Nations will visit Ethiopia and Tanzania together with with UN food and agriculture organizations

December 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the cultural building Rosette in Arnhem

December 11th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and their Royal Hignesses Princess Beatrix, Princess Mabel, Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien will attend the presentation of the Prince Claus Award to the Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm

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January 2014



January 9th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the start of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Army in Den Haag

January 9th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit a music project for children in Haarlem

January 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend a part of the anniversary programme of the Royal Society "The Friesian Horse Studbook" in Leeuwarden - the association is celebrating its 135th anniversary

January 14th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will host the traditional New Year reception for Dutch guests at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam

January 15th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will host the traditional New Year reception for foreign diplomats at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam

January 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the 17th edition of the ballet gala of the dancers foundation '79 in Amsterdam

January 20th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive the President of the French Republic, François Hollande, who will be on a one-day visit to the Netherlands

January 21st
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will officially open the renovated Bovag House in Bunnik

January 22nd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will view the new euro coins at the Dutch Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht

January 22nd
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will read aloud at the Horizon Elementary School in Delft as part of the National Reading Day

January 23rd
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will pay an official visit to Italy

January 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the 14th edition of the Holland Dance Festival in Den Haag

January 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the 9th meetin of Connected in Liberty in Utrecht

January 29th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new headquarters of Enexis in 's Hertogenbosch

January 30th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the sustainable business complex Lely Campus in Maassluis

January 30th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will receive the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen

January 30th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the celebration of the 10th anniversary of CSR Netherlands in Utrecht

January 31st
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the jubilee symposium Qredits, Microfinance Netherlands in Utrecht

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February 2014



February 1st
The National Investiture Committee will hold the national celebration of Queen Beatrix's reign at the Ahoy in Rotterdam

February 3rd - 4th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima in her role as Special advocate of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for inclusive finance for development will be at the United Nations in New York

February 4th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the exhibition "The Second World War in 100 objects' at the Kunsthal Rotterdam

February 4th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will visit the Foundation DebtAidBuddy Midden Delfland in Maasland

February 7th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi

February 7th - 11th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi

February 12th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the opening symposium of the Centre for Healthy Weight of the Erasmus MC and St. Francis Hospital in Rotterdam

February 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the opening of a three-day international conference on Chinese Buddhism at the Leiden University

February 13th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the exhibition Art Fellows at the North Brabant Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch

February 13th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will give the opening speech at "Quality Now!", a European conference on the quality of cultural education in primary school, in Amsterdam

February 17th
The Royal Family will pose for the annual photosession during their winter holidays in Lech, Austria

February 25th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will receive the Dutch medalists of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi

February 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien will open the chocolate factory in Gouda.

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March 2014



March 2nd - 7th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima in her role as special advocate of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for inclusive finance for development will visit Columbia and Peru

March 4th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the exhibition "Willem II - Art King" at the Dordrecht Museum

March 6th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new Dutch Cheese Museum in Alkmaar

March 7th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the Complex Koning Willem-Alexander of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in Hoofddorp

March 7th - 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi

March 10th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the 4th edition of the 'National Money Week' at the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum

March 11th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit Avoord Care and Housing in Etten-Leur during the National Week of Health and Welfare

March 13th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the new Rotterdam Central Station

March 14th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will be thanked for her efforts in the fields of art with the show "Generous Talent for Princess Beatrix" by the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag

March 18th
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Margriet and Princess Laurentien will attend the Princess Margriet Award ceremony ECF 2014 in Brussels

March 18th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend a meeting on Social Innovation at the Universityof Tilburg

March 21st
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will receive the German Media Prize in Baden-Baden, Germany

March 21st
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the exhibition "Armando in the forest" at the museum MOA | Museum Old Amelisweerd in Bunnik

March 22nd - 23rd
The President of the People's Republic of China, His Excellency Xi Jinping, and his wife will be on a state visit to the Netherlands

March 24th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will receive the heads of delegation of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) for a dinner at the palace Huis Ten Bosch in Den Haag

March 26th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the renovated town hall of Velsen

March 26th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit the musical project "Young Musicians Spread Their Wings" at Eindhoven Air Base

March 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the 3rd edition of the Prince Claus Concert in Groningen

March 27th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima as special advocate of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for inclusive finance for development will give the opening speech at the 4th Morningstar Investment Conference Europe in Amsterdam

March 27th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the ROC Central Netherlands in Utrecht

March 29th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will visit the Constitutional Festival in Den Haag celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Dutch Constitution

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April 2014



April 1st & 3rd
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will receive the members of the Parliament

April 2nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will conduct the baptism of the Nh1816, a new type of lifeboat of the Royal Dutch Rescue Organisation (KNRM), in IJmuiden

April 2nd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the Centre for Innovation "The Gallery" in Enschede

April 4th - 5th
Their Majesties King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia will be on an official visit to the Netherlands

April 8th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the Campus Hoogvliet in Rotterdam with three schools, a residential building for young people, a sports facility and an art studio

April 8th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the King Day Concert in Haarlem

April 9th
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the restored church in New Zierikzee

April 12th
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the exhibition and experience centre PIT in Almere where exhibitions, events and conferences in the field of security will be organized

April 14th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima as Honorary President of Platform Guide in money matters will attend a PTA meeting on "financial education" at a school in Almere

April 15th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the seaweed centre of the Royal Dutch Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on Texel

April 16th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will receive the first copy of the book "The Dutch Merchant Navy in Wartime" in Rotterdam

April 17th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Red Cross Congress "Power to the People, the power of citizens in the disaster relief and crisis" in Utrecht

April 23rd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will hand out the certificates of the 1000th language course Hago Zorg employees have completed in Rotterdam

April 25th
His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn will award the World Press Photo of the Year 2013 in Amsterdam

April 25th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend parts of the King Games in Ens

April 26th
The Royal Family will celebrate the King's Day in Amstelveen and De Rijp

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May 2014



May 4th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the National Memorial in Amsterdam

May 4th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet, Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven and His Royal Highness Prince Pieter-Christiaan will attend the memorial ceremony at the Military Field of Honour Grebbeberg, Rhenen

May 5th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the closing celebration of the celebrations of the National Liberation in Amsterdam

May 5th
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend a memorial meeting in Wageningen on the occasion of the national commemoration of the capitulations of the German and Japanese occupation forces in the Netherlands and the former Dutch East Indies in 1945

May 6th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will pay a visit to the region Achterhoek in the province of Gelderland

May 7th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the National Equestrian Centre in Ermelo

May 8th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the second Johan Friso lock in Stavoren

May 8th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the world premiere of the play ANNE about the life of Anne Frank in Amsterdam

May 9th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the new nursing home De Schauw in Putten

May 12th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the "Minerva Two Centuries Concert" at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

May 13th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the concert "Symphony for scaredy-cats and daredevils" by the Dutch Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with children from asylum seekers and children from primary schools in Overijssel, in Zwolle

May 13th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will hand out the King Willem I Prize 2014 and the King Willem I Plaque for Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2014 in Amsterdam

May 14th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will receive the Diplomatic Corps for the annual gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam

May 15th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the start of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the University of Groningen

May 15th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the jubilee concert of the Foundation Music in the House at the residental care home De Bolder in Huizen

May 16th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the anniversary conference of the Dutch Society for the Advancement of Dentistry in Amsterdam

May 16th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the new premises of Unipro bv, a producer and supplier of flooring systems, in Haaksbergen

May 20th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend the inaugural lecture of Professor Jumoke Oduwole at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag

May 20th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the Kingdom Youth Parliament on the island of Sint Maarten

May 21st
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will view the first new 2 euro coin with a double portrait of the King at the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will hand out the Apples of Orange 2014. His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will be present as well

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will open the 25th edition of the ECSITE, the conference for culture and science communication at the World Forum in Den Haag

May 22nd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend a jubilee gala concert of the "Royal Sophia's Association" at the Efteling Theatre.

May 22nd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the exhibition "Seurat. Master of Pointillism" at the Kröller-Müller Museum to mark the 75th anniversary of the museum

May 23rd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will attend a luncheon in honour of "silent helpers", organized by the development organisation Cordaid in Amsterdam. The lunch also marks the 100th anniversary of Cordaid

May 23rd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the renovated Museum Prinsenhof in Delft

May 24th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the Four Freedoms Awards 2014 at the Nieuwe Kerk in Middelburg

May 26th - 27th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit the federal states Niedersachsen and Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany

May 27th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the new location of The Bridge Foundation in Oud-Beijerland

May 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the inauguration of the Sunflower Shuttle at Het Loo Palace

May 30th
Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the exhibition "Netherlands golf!" on the occasion of the centenary of the Dutch Golf Federation in Den Haag

May 30th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the opening of the Hockey World Cup 2014 in Den Haag

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June 2014



June 1st
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the opening show of the 67th edition of the Holland Festival at the National Opera & Ballet Building in Amsterdam

June 3rd - 4th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will receive His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco and Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco for a visit to the Netherlands

June 5th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open the exhibition 'Royal Gifts' at the new Dutch Silver Museum in Schoonhoven

June 6th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima together with Prime Minister Rutte will attend the commemorations in Caen and Ouistreham/Sword-beach to mark the Allied invasion in the Normandy 70 years ago

June 6th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will open the Meander Medical Centre in Amersfoort

June 10th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will open an exhibition on the life and work of Joep Nicolas at the Cuypers house in Roermond

June 11th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will launch the National Garden Week at the St. Agatha's Square in Delft

June 13th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the ceremony of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

June 14th
Her Royal Highnesses Princess Beatrix and Princess Margriet together with Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the Grand Defile at Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn on the occasion of the celebration of 200 years of the Kingdom

June 17th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will hand out the Silver Carnations of the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam

June 17th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the summer exhibition "The Big Curve" - a large solo exhibition by contemporary French sculptor Henri Laurens - at the Lange Voorhout in Den Haag

June 18th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will attend the soccer match Netherlands-Australia in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on the occasion of the World Soccer Championships 2014

June 20th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will open the exhibition "In All Their Glory" at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam

June 20th
Her Majesty Queen Máxima as Special Advocate of the Secretary-General of the UN for inclusive finance for development will give the opening speech at the international conference "Innovation in surveillance, monitoring and innovation of the Authority's Consumer & Market (ACM)" in Den Haag

June 23rd
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the celebration of 200 years of the Supreme Council of Nobility in Den Haag and will receive the first copy of the "Coat of arms register of the Dutch nobility"

June 23rd
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will give a speech about the importance of financial independence of women at the meeting FORCE on Tour in Eindhoven

June 24th - 25th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will be on a two-day state visit to Poland

June 25th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the opening of the European congress "Post-Polio Syndrome – A condition without boundaries’" at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam

June 26th
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will hand out growth certificates to the participants of the Orange Fund Growth Programme

June 27th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the reopening of the Mauritshuis in Den Haag. The museum has been completely renovated and extended over the past two years

June 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix will attend the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Dutch Bible Society in Utrecht

June 28th
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet will attend the annual End of Season show of the modern ballet company Introdans at the Schouwburg Arnhem

June 28th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Prime Minister Rutte will attend the 10th Dutch Veterans Day in Den Haag

June 30th
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will attend the premiere of the concert tour "There rode a train to Sobibor" at the Westerkerk in Amsterdam