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

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King Willem-Alexander opened the Centre for Innovation "The Gallery" in Enschede today, April 2nd:



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King Willem-Alexander received the President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma at Noordeinde today, April 4:



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King Willem-Alexander met with the President of the German Bundesrat, Stephan Weil, at Palace Noordeinde in Den Haag today, April 14:



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And this afternoon King Willem-Alexander put the first hive at the Horsten estate into use.



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King Willem-Alexander opened the seaweed centre of the Royal Dutch Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on Texel today, April 15:



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** texelsecourant.nl: Ontspannen bezoek koning aan Texel ** translation **


** rtvnh.nl video: Zelfs de Duitse toeristen op Texel zijn fan van onze koning **

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King Willem-Alexander has attended the start of the King Games 2014 in Ens today, April 25:



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And later today he received Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at Eikenhorst:



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King Willem-Alexander at the premiere of the play "ANNE", about the life of Anne Frank, at the Theater Amsterdam. May 8th, 2014

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On May 7 King Willem-Alexander opened the National Equestrian Centre in Ermelo.



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And on May 8 he opened the second Johan Friso lock in Stavoren and visited Super COOL!, an initiative of the Almeerse Ice skate association and Triade in Almere.



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King Willem-Alexander attended the start of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the University of Groningen today, May 15:



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King Willem-Alexander attended the anniversary conference of the Dutch Society for the Advancement of Dentistry in Amsterdam today, May 16:




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King Willem-Alexander received the new 2 Euro coin with a double portrait of Willem-Alexander and Beatrix at the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht today, May 21:



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King Willem-Alexander opened the exhibition "Seurat. Master of Pointillism" at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo today, May 22nd, to mark the 75th anniversary of the museum.



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King Willem-Alexander open the renovated Museum Prinsenhof in Delft today, May 23, 2014.



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King Willem-Alexander attended the opening of the Hockey World Cup 2014 in Den Haag today, May 30:



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King Willem-Alexander met with truck drivers at the Europoort in Rotterdam today, June 5, in order to discuss the developments in the sector, the employment law and the rise of Eastern European drivers on the Dutch market.



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He is a good and charismatic King. He seems to very lovely person

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Today, June 17, King Willem-Alexander opened the summer exhibition "The Big Curve" - a large solo exhibition by contemporary French sculptor Henri Laurens - at the Lange Voorhout in Den Haag.


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King Willem-Alexander opened the exhibition "In All Their Glory" at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam today, June 20, 2014.



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King Willem-Alexander attended the celebration of 200 years of the Supreme Council of Nobility in Den Haag today, June 23, and received the first copy of the "Coat of arms register of the Dutch nobility".



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The king opened the renovated Mauritshuis today. In only two years they were able to double the size of the museum by making a tunnel to a building across the street. The girl with the pearl earring by Vermeer was on tour for most of these 2 years, but yesterday she was able to hand the keys to the gate to the king herself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxbGnytjTes

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Note that the museum was started in 1822, the base of the collection was a donation of 200 paintings by King Willem I. Many of these paintings belonged to his father, stadholder Willem V, and were taken to Paris by the Napoleontic troops. The girl with the pearl earring did not belong to this collection, it was bought by art collector Arnold des Tombes in 1881 for 2 guilders and 31 cents (!). After his death in 1902 he left much of his collection to the Mauritshuis.

The building itself was built for Johan Maurtis of Nassau-Siegen, governor general of Dutch Brazil (area of Recife).

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King Willem-Alexander attended the 10th Veteransday (Veteranendag 2014) in The Hague.June 28, 2014

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