Willem-Alexander & Maxima's Visit to Morocco: November 13-16, 2005

[Mandy]

Willem-Alexander and Maxima of the Netherlands will visit Morocco November 13 to 16, 2005 to celebrate 400 years of Dutch-Moroccan relations.

 

[Marengo]

According to NOS Teletekst 7 young dutch(wo)men from maroccan descent will join the prince and princes in Marocco. This was suggested by the court itself and will be financed by the Orange Fund (wedding gift of the population to WA and Maxima for theri marriage). I like the signal the couple want to give with this, let's hope it will do some good.

 

[purple_platinum]

Do we know when they are going to arrived or to what city?
Is there somewhere to find their program for this visit?

 

[The Watcher]

[FONT=verdana, arial][FONT=verdana, arial]Message from BRMB, posted by joris

Willem-Alexander and Máxima have just arrived in Morocco.

The Dutch Royal Site published a long text about the visit. Let me post the loaded schedule in English

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Sunday evening, 13 November
- Reception at Marrakech Airport by HRH Prince Moulay Rachid.[/FONT]
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Monday morning, 14 November[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]- Prince Willem-Alexanders delivers opening speech at water congress 'Between Windmill and Watermill', organized at Marrakech University by the Morocco-Netherlands 400 Years Foundation (1605-2005).[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]- Princess Máxima partially attends the Women's World Banking Conference at the Palmeraie Goplf Palace Hotel. She will be received by Morocco's PM Driss Jettou. Conference is organised by WWB Global Network for Banking Innovation (GNBI). Microcredit is seen as profitable issue.[/FONT]
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Monday afternoon, 14 November:[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]- Prince and Princess visit the Bassin Hydraulic du Tensift. Focus on watermanagement, watercleaning at the Station de Traitement des Eaux.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]Monday evening, 15 November:[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]- 'Art en Tour Marrakech', an intercultural music programme aimed at the cultural co-operation between Morocco and The Netherlands, organised by the Dutch Amateur Arts and Performing Arts Fund, commissioned by the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education, Culture & Science, on the occasion of '400 Years Morocco-The Netherlands'. Musicians: Fra Fra Sound, DJ Saif and Majid Bekkeas.[/FONT]
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Tuesday morning, 15 November:[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]- Prince and Princess visit the Medina of Marrakech. Focus on microfinance. Visit to the Al Amana office where credits are given. Couple visit several shops, a.o. a shop for herbs/spices and a manufacturer of chairs.[/FONT]
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Tuesday afternoon, 15 November:[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]- Prince and Princess visit Koran school. Discussion with 15 students about Religion and Identituy.
- Visit to Musée Dar Si Saïd: opening of exhibition 'Respect! Forms of co-existence, organised by the Mondrian Foundation: modern Dutch art, commissioned by Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Education, Culture and Science, celebrating 400 Years Morocco-The Netherlands.[/FONT]
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Wednesday 16 November:[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial]- Prince and Princess visit town of Amizmisz. Received by Mayor.
- Visit to Girls boarding school.
- Visit to several studios where craftsmen are working: a furniture maker, a smith, a frame maker.
- Visit to reservoir lake Barrage Lalla Takerkoust.[/FONT]
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During the visit 12 youngsters from the Netherlands will accompany parts of the visit of the Prince and Princess. 6 of them are Dutch, 6 of them have Moroccan roots.
The project is 'Connecting Identities'.
Prince and Princess will talk with them and the 12 youngsters will lecture about their experiences at Dutch schools.[/FONT]
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At the news bulletin this evening it was said that Prince and Princess also will be received by King "M6".[/FONT]

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[The Watcher]

Pictures: ANP

 

[Roxsteve]

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=212861&d=1131914386

I never realized how big Maxima's feet were!! Or is this just the way the picture was taken???

 

[La la]

I think it's just her pointy shoes.

 

[Amira]

more pictures

 

[The Watcher]

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=212861&d=1131914386

I never realized how big Maxima's feet were!! Or is this just the way the picture was taken???

Yes, she has big feet. But I'm not sure how big exactly, I thought size 42 (Europe). But they are big, esp. for an argentinian woman.

 

[carlota]

well, argentinian woman, as well as latin ones, tend to be quite tall. maxima seems to be tall as well, and we need to have into account that the shoes are pointy shoes and not rounded. those look bigger, specially when seen from the profile and not from the front or from above...

i loved the reception in the airport. willem, maxima and moulay raschid seem to be happy to meet each other. i also liked the part of him kissing maxima's hand, he is such a gentleman!
according to protocol, does he have to kiss her hand? they are both prince and princess.. why is that then? is it just a polite gesture to her as she is a lady?

what were those things they offered them?

i don't know why, but all this looks so glittery to me! probably it's because of the fact it's at night, but there seem to be so many people there and the nice thing of offering them things to eat and drink that are specially from the country they are visiting... it looks to me so beautiful.

 

[La la]

what were those things they offered them?

I think it's dates.

 

[Amira]

I think it's tea and dates.

No, its not .... in morroccan tradition we offer to our guests Milk and Dates

 

[Humera]

great pictures! Its just too bad we didnt see any of the Moroccan princessesses. I hope we'll see them over the next few days.

 

[La la]

Oh, ok. I wasn't sure about the tea (that's why I edited it) mainly because it wasn't served in the beautiful Moroccan tea glasses.

 

[The Watcher]

great pictures! Its just too bad we didnt see any of the Moroccan princessesses. I hope we'll see them over the next few days.

Tomorrow Willem-Alexander will visit Mohammed VI and Máxima will visit Lalla Salma.

 

[carlota]

Tomorrow Willem-Alexander will visit Mohammed VI and Máxima will visit Lalla Salma.

great news! thanks the watcher... what's the source? in the official planning it doesn't say anything... will it be a gala dinner as the one they hosted for the spanish king and queen?

i can't wait to see a photo of maxima and salma. in some way, they look so much alike to me, they both seem to be really determined, intelligent, feminine but not shallow and interested in important things (as rania, mathilde for example, as well)

 

[misshelen]

Pictures from the first day without watermarks from Reuters

 

[misshelen]

Pictures from The Telegraaf without watermarks

 

[misshelen]

Pictures from Polfoto

 

[Emily]

Thanks, misshelen! Maxima's outfit looks beautiful.

 

[purple_platinum]

maxima does look great in red. she's shining...
this looks like a great start for an official visit.
hopefully the lack of coverage like on willem-alexander's last visit to china will not repeat in this visit.

thanks for all the photos, everyone...

 

[purple_platinum]

Some more big photos from the arrival courtesy of deadline press :

 

[fanletizia]

Tomorrow Willem-Alexander will visit Mohammed VI and Máxima will visit Lalla Salma.

Do Mohammed and Salma live in different houses?

 

[clymène]

No, fanletizia, mohamed and salma live in the same house, in rabat, called dar essalam; the watcher was meaning that W-A and Maxima would visit them separatly, or that women would have different activities togheter, and vice versa for men... I suppose so.

 

[samia]

princess maxima is luminous, and she has interesting activities
I think salma is the less active princess that I know, she is very passive

 

[Little_star]

Thanks for all the pictures! Maxima really does suit red!

 

[KikkiB]

From Hello Magazine online regarding the Morocco visit

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2005/11/14/dutchroyals/

 

[Emily]

Does anyone have a full length photo of that red outfit PM had on last night? Just curious but am appreciating all the photos posted so far and looking forward to what promises to be some colorful outfit!

 

[fanletizia]

From getty

Prince Willem-Alexander

1.- Visits a dam 14 November 2005 at Sidi Moussa near Marrakech (1 and 2)

2.- Visits the ONEP (which main missions are to ensure drinking water supply and to monitor water quality) in Sidi Moussa, Morocco(3,4,8)

3.- Talks during a conference on water at Marrakech's Medical faculty, 14 November 2005(5,6,7)

 

[fanletizia]

Prinses Maxima in Womans World Banking Annual Conference, in Marrakech. ANP