King Willem-Alexander, Current Events Part 1 (May 2013 - October 2017)

[iceflower]

Thanks again I've never learned it, it's just really interesting as the two languages have so many similarities..


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[iceflower]

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King Willem-Alexander attended the jubilee symposium marking the 50th anniversary of Eurotransplant in Noordwijk today, October 5. During the event he received a copy of the jubileebook "Together on a life-saving misssion":


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[iceflower]

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King Willem-Alexander handed out the Royal Award for Free Painting 2017 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam today, October 6:


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[lucien]

Originally Posted by Duc_et_Pair

The un-announced visit of the King to the Jordaan, a neighbourhood in the centre of Amsterdam, touched a lot of people in the Netherlands. Mr Eberhard van der Laan, the Mayor of Amsterdam, is severely ill (diagnosed with lung cancer in a far advanced stadium) and the way the King offered his arm to help the mayor stirred emotions amongst the Amsterdamers and the Dutch (Van der Laan is a very popular Mayor).

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The King and the Mayor (and the Mayor's glamorous wife) during the glorious King's Water Pageant on April 30th 2013: picture.

The King also visited the late Mayor last week privately,just a few days before he died last thursday.Very moving.

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King Willem-Alexander yesterday also received the Chairwoman of the House of Representatives, Khadija Arib, and Senate Chamber President Ankie Broekers-Knol:


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[Somebody]

Originally Posted by eya

King Willem-Alexander receives Dutch Prime Minister and formateur Mark Rutte and the Vice-President of the Council of State, Piet-Hein Donner at the Eikenhorst Palace on October 13, after the leaders of the Dutch political parties agreed on October 10, to form the next Dutch government.

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Donner was indeed received at the Eikenhorst (as were the two chairs of parliament) - in the morning - but the PM was received at Noordeinde Palace in the afternoon (the king and queen had just had lunch with a group of 'stars' (typically those who won some kind of prize earlier in the year) at the same palace).

Love this picture of the PM parking his bike (and locking it!) next to the entrance of the palace. Can't imagine any other country where this could be seen.

[Duc_et_Pair]

Originally Posted by eya

King Willem-Alexander receives Dutch Prime Minister and formateur Mark Rutte and the Vice-President of the Council of State, Piet-Hein Donner at the Eikenhorst Palace on October 13, after the leaders of the Dutch political parties agreed on October 10, to form the next Dutch government.

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Eikenhorst is not a palace, just the King's private villa on the royal estate De Horsten in Wassenaar (near The Hague). The King did not receive his guests in the villa but in those ghastly temporarily placed containers which serve as office as long as Huis ten Bosch Palace is under restoration.

No idea why the Vice-President of the Council of State and the Chair of the First Chamber (the Senate) were received in "the container" and the Premier at Noordeinde Palace. Will have been a matter of logistics, I think.

[Rossina]

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