Pres. Bush will arrive in the Netherlands on the evening of May 7, 2005. This is his schedule (according to the website of the U.S. Dept. of State):
On Sunday, May 8, the President will have a breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Balkenende, followed by a youth roundtable. Upon completion of the roundtable, President Bush will pay his respects to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, and will congratulate her on her recent 25th anniversary celebration as Queen.The President will then lay a wreath at The Netherlands-American Cemetery in Margraten. At the cemetery, he will be joined by Her Majesty and the Prime Minister, and the President will offer remarks and afterwards, greet American and Dutch veterans.
On Sunday afternoon, the President and Mrs. Bush will depart for Moscow, Russia.
Pres. Bush will arrive in the Netherlands on the evening of May 7, 2005. This is his schedule (according to the website of the U.S. Dept. of State):
On Sunday, May 8, the President will have a breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Balkenende, followed by a youth roundtable. Upon completion of the roundtable, President Bush will pay his respects to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, and will congratulate her on her recent 25th anniversary celebration as Queen.The President will then lay a wreath at The Netherlands-American Cemetery in Margraten. At the cemetery, he will be joined by Her Majesty and the Prime Minister, and the President will offer remarks and afterwards, greet American and Dutch veterans.
On Sunday afternoon, the President and Mrs. Bush will depart for Moscow, Russia.
Pres. Bush will arrive in the Netherlands on the evening of May 7, 2005. This is his schedule (according to the website of the U.S. Dept. of State):
On Sunday, May 8, the President will have a breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Balkenende, followed by a youth roundtable. Upon completion of the roundtable, President Bush will pay his respects to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, and will congratulate her on her recent 25th anniversary celebration as Queen.The President will then lay a wreath at The Netherlands-American Cemetery in Margraten. At the cemetery, he will be joined by Her Majesty and the Prime Minister, and the President will offer remarks and afterwards, greet American and Dutch veterans.
On Sunday afternoon, the President and Mrs. Bush will depart for Moscow, Russia.
I don't think so Sara ... it doesn't sound like there is time for a dinner, since he arrives in the Netherlands on the evening of May 7th and then leaves the next afternoon for Russia.
I don't think so Sara ... it doesn't sound like there is time for a dinner, since he arrives in the Netherlands on the evening of May 7th and then leaves the next afternoon for Russia.
Tomorrow Queen Beatrix' first official Silver Jubilee Visit in a series of royal visits to the provinces/parts of the continental and overseas Kingdom of the Netherlands will take place.
First stop: Province of Groningen.
For the full programme see www.koninklijkhuis.nl
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MONTREAL - Montreal's mayor drew gasps from a crowd of royal watchers on Tuesday when he gave Princess Margriet of the Netherlands a two-cheek kiss during a welcome at City Hall. The princess appeared flustered after the kisses, leaving the reception room after signing the register without delivering her prepared speech.
Princess Margriet speaks to Canadian veterans after memorial ceremonies at Groesbeek Canadian Military cemetery in Groesbeek, Netherlands last week. (CP photo)
She returned seconds later to deliver the speech, then returned Mayor Gerald Tremblay's kiss.
Her husband, Pieter van Vollenhoven, joked the kisses interrupted his wife's train of thought.
"You start all this kissing, it's easy for her to forget what she has to do," he said.
Royal spokesperson Hans Kemp said the princess wasn't upset by the kisses.
Tremblay denied he committed a royal faux pas.
The princess, who was born in an Ottawa hospital while her family was exiled from the Netherlands during the Second World War, is on a two-day visit to Montreal.
She's in the city to thank veterans for liberating Holland 60 years ago.
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Dutch Queen Beatrix visits Delfzijl, Thursday 12 May 2005. The Queen started a tour through the Netherlands where she is visiting all the 12 provinces in the Netherlands. Thursday was her first visit to the province of Groningen. The tour is in honour of her 25 years of reign as Queen of the Netehrlands.
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Long live our Noble Queen,
God save The Queen"
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CNC News - Kisses flusters Princess
Princess Margriet speaks to Canadian veterans after memorial ceremonies at Groesbeek Canadian Military cemetery in Groesbeek, Netherlands last week. (CP photo) 
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