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Princess Beatrix has thanked all well-wishers for the birthday greetings for her 87th birthday on January 31:
Apologies if this has been posted already, but it was a rare case of European royalty making the UK news media.
Uden Town Hall in the Netherlands apparently accidentally threw out a print of Andy Warhol's famous portrait of Beatrix from his 'Reigning Queen's' series. It was worth around €15,000 / £12,000.
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Town hall accidentally bins Andy Warhol print of former Dutch Queen
Missing artworks, valued at £19k, likely to have been taken by rubbish vans and incineratedwww.telegraph.co.uk
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The silkscreen print of Queen Beatrix was among 45 artworks likely to have been thrown away during renovations of Uden town hall in the Netherlands in 2023.
Maashorst municipality officials confirmed on Thursday that the missing artworks, valued at €22,000 (£18,700), were likely disposed of in council rubbish vans and incinerated at a local waste centre, an investigation by the Dutch municipalities found.
The case comes months after another incident involving Warhol’s works in the Netherlands, when thieves attempted to steal four prints from the same “Reigning Queens” series from a gallery in North Brabant province.