King Willem-Alexander, Current Events Part 3 (December 2020- present)

[iceflower]

King Willem-Alexander attended the last day of the ABN AMRO Open tennis tournament and viewed the exhibition commemorating 50 years of the ABN AMRO Open today, February 19:


** anp gallery ** rex gallery **

[AC21091968]

Originally Posted by iceflower

King Willem-Alexander attended the last day of the ABN AMRO Open tennis tournament and viewed the exhibition commemorating 50 years of the ABN AMRO Open today, February 19:


** anp gallery ** rex gallery **

King Willem-Alexander appeared to enjoy the final match very much from looking at the pictures and videos (from tennis broadcasting channels). He was sitting next to Richard Krajicek (former Dutch tennis player), Ahoy director Jolanda Jansen and mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb. They mentioned that The King was very observant about the tennis match.

The King had announced his visit weeks before the jubilee edition. Prior to the final, the King visited an exhibition with highlights from the history of the 500 tournament. And during the final, the King had the best place at the very front of the track, in row 1, with Richard Krajicek, Ahoy director Jolanda Jansen and mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb next to him. "It's a real honor to sit next to him and really fun," says Krajicek.

The full Ahoy was presented with a beautiful and long final of no less than two and a half hours. Sinner opened very strong in the first set (7-5), but then looked a bit tired because of the many matches in recent weeks. Too tired to make it really difficult for the tough Russian, winner of the US Open in 2021. King Willem-Alexander also saw this. "Yes, the King really understands tennis and observes very sharply," laughs Krajicek. "He was the first to see that Sinner was no longer able to walk between the points."

King Willem-Alexander sees Medvedev win anniversary edition of ABN AMRO Open and 'observes very closely'
Tournament director Richard Krajicek beamed on the center court of Rotterdam Ahoy on Sunday after the final of the ABN AMRO Open between Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner (5-7, 6-2, 6-2). The impressive winner's ring at 2023 bears the name of former world number one Medvedev. The fiftieth edition of the ABN AMRO Open was a great success for several reasons. The field of participants was beautiful, a lot of tennis fans came to Rotterdam, singer Davina Michelle gave a spectacular performance and on the final day, King Willem-Alexander was the attention spectator in the sold-out Ahoy.
https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/16156...rt-heel-scherp [Article in Dutch (Google Translated to English)]

[Duc_et_Pair]

"The winners ring" is a translation error. Meant is the boarding around the first floor tribune, a ring around the court which displays all winners of this tournament: Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Ivan Lendl, Jimmy Connors, Björn Borg, Arthur Ashe and name them all in 50 editions of this tennis tournament.

[iceflower]

Kin Willem-Alexander visited Dutch soldiers who are part of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence in Pabrade, Lithuania today, February 21.

Afterwards he was received by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius:


** Pic ** rex gallery ** anp gallery **

[polyesco]

More photos from his visit
https://twitter.com/koninklijkhuis/s...42197273653250

[An Ard Ri]

King Willem-Alexander paid a visit to Simpel Switchen program in Rotterdam
https://www.ppe-agency.com/show.php?...23%20Rotterdam

[iceflower]

King Willem-Alexander visited the collective housing project Boschgaard in Den Bosch today, February 23:


** ppe gallery ** rex gallery ** anp gallery ** gtresnews gallery **

[iceflower]

King Willem-Alexander paid a working visit to the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) in Utrecht today, March 14:


** anp gallery ** ppe gallery **


And he paid a visit to the National Criminal Investigation Service in Driebergen:


** Pic **

[iceflower]

This evening, March 15, King Willem-Alexander attended the dinner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Amsterdam.

The Palace shared a copy of his speech in English:


** Toespraak van Koning Willem-Alexander tijdens het diner van de World Business Council for Sustainable Development..**

[iceflower]

King Willem-Alexander is currently on a two day visit to the United Nations in New York to attend the UN 2023 water conference:

Yesterday, March 21, he held a speech at the 'Plenary Session, High-level Panel on Water and Disasters':


** Pic ** rex gallery ** anp gallery ** A copy of his speech **


Today, March 22, King Willem-Alexander held a speech at the official opening ceremony:


** anp gallery ** A copy of his speech **

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ7Qf8feo2I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwiKgG7CaM