October 2008
October 1st
Her Majesty
The Queen will attend the opening of the lustrum exhibition of the Rembrandt Foundation
"125 Great Loves
" at the van Gogh Museum
,Amsterdam
.
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Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima ,Member of the UN Advisors group on Accessible Financial Sectors
,Member of the Dutch Council for Micro
-Finance
,attended the symposium "The Future of Development Finance",The Hague.
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October 2nd
His Royal Highness
The Prince of Orange will open the new multi-functional sportaccomodation,Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.
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His Royal Highness
The Prince of Orange will hand-out 6 important Heineken International Prizes in Science and Art.
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Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima attended a conference on accessible financial sectors at Krakow,Poland.
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October 3rd
Her Majesty
The Queen, Patron,will attend the jubilee meeting of the National Youth Foundation "Jantje Beton" and will receive the first copy of the book;"Time to play,Jantje Beton ( Johnny Concrete) goes on". HM designed and made the nationally wellknown statue of Jantje Beton decades ago (the original is in the Soesdijk Palace park),the organisation that enables city kids to have good play grounds.
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Prof.mr.
Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the 7th visitors center of the Nature Monuments,Nieuwkoop.
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October 6th
Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima will open the exhibition " Money and your life` at the visitors center of the Nederlandse Bank,Amsterdam.
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Her Royal Highness
Princess Laurentien ,accompanied by HE the Minister of Education,Culture and Science,Mr.Ronald Plasterk,
will pay a working visit to Middelburg and Vlissingen in the frame of fighting illiteracy.
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October 7th
Her Majesty
The Queen will visit West Zeeuws-Vlaanderen,province of Zeeland.
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His Royal Highness
The Prince of Orange will speech at the Highwater Safeguard seminar Hitzacker,Germany,in the frame of the
International Congress Aqua Alta in Hamburg.The seminar is one of the events of the 750th anniversary of the town of Hitzacker,
birthplace of the late Prince Claus.
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October 8th
Her Majesty
The Queen will open the new venue of the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Central Statistics Bureau),The Hague.
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Her Majesty
The Queen will receive the Credentials of Their Excellencies:
The ambassador of the Republic of Portugal,Mr.Manuel Nuno Tavares de Sousa
The ambassador of His Majesty The King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan,Dr.Khaldoun Talhouni
The ambassador of the Republic of Korea,Dr.Kim Young-Won.
at Noordeinde Palace,The Hague.
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October 8th -
10th
Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima, Member of the UN Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors,
will attend the 11th Inter-American Micro-enterprise Forum,Asuncion,Paraguay.
October 10th
Her Majesty
The Queen will hand-out the annual Free Painter Art Prize.
The Prize,an initiative of HM King Willem III,is the most prestigious for starting artists.
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His Royal Highness
The Prince of Orange will speech at the symposium on areal development,Poderoijen.
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Prof.mr.
Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the premiere of the musical "Sunset Boulevard" at the Royal Theatre Carré,Amsterdam.
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October 12th
His Royal Highness
The Prince of Orange ,Chair of UNSGAB
,will speech at the Duisenberg Lecture,Washington DC.
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October 14th
Her Royal Highness
Princess Laurentien ,formerstudent ,will speech at the start of the celebrations on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Gymnasium Sorghvliet,Kloosterkerk,The Hague.
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October 15th
His Royal Highness
The Prince of Orange ,Chair of UNSGAB,will attend and speech at theGlbal Handwashing Day,Pretoria,Africa.
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October 18th
Her Majesty
The Queen will attend the opening of the exhibition of works by Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966)
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October 19th - 22nd
Her Royal Highness
Princess Margriet will attend the regional African Red Cross and Red Crescent meetings at Johannesburg,South-Africa.
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October 21st - 23rd
By invitation of Her Majesty
The Queen ,the President of Ghana,HE Mr.Johm Agyekum Kufuor and Mrs. Theresa Kufuor-Mensah
will bring a State Visit to The Netherlands.
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October 24th
Their Royal Highnesses
The Prince of Orange and
Princess Máxima ,Patron
,will attend the Jubilee concert on occasion
of the 120th anniversary of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
,Concertgebouw
,Amsterdam.
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October 27th
Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima attended the Roundtable meeting Egyptian Microfinance Leaders,Cairo.
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October 28th
Her Majesty
The Queen was on a working visit at the regional social services agency,Zeist.
Purpose of the visit was to learn more on the safety of people in a public office.
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Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima will attend the exhibition;" Power and Mysthicism,Egmond and the Middle Ages" ,
Municipal Museum,Alkmaar.
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Prof.mr.
Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the Memorial Concert `On The Air 2008`,World Forum Theater,The Hague.
The concert is a tribute to the pilotes and crew that were killed in action during the WWII both here in The Netherlands
and in The Dutch East/Indies,present day Indonesia.
The Commander of the Royal Dutch Airforce will host the concert while the orchestra of the Royal Dutch Army will perform.
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October 29th
Her Majesty
The Queen ,Chair,hosted a dinner for the Council of State at Noordeinde Palace last night.
TRH
The Prince of Orange and
Princess Máxima were in attendance.
October 30th
His Royal Highness
The Prince of Orange will visit,and speech at,the Bouwhuisdebate on the future of the Green Heart
( the rural/green area between the cities of Utrecht,Amsterdam,Rotterdam and The Hague).
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Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima will open the Fairtrade Week 2008.Hoel Theater Figi,Zeist.
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Her Royal Highness
Princess Margriet and Prof.mr.
Pieter van Vollenhoven will attend the Handicapped Sports Gala,
Olympic Stadion,Amsterdam.
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October 31st
Her Majesty
The Queen received Her Excellency the ambassador of Guatemala,mrs dr. Carla Maria Rodriguez Mancia
for a farewell audience at Huis ten Bosch Palace.
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Her Royal Highness
Princess Máxima will attend the symposium on the results of scientific studies on filantropical behaviour among migrants,`The Happy Spender`...VU University,Amsterdam.
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