On the occasion of his 50th birthday on 27 April 2017 King Willem-Alexander invited 150 Dutch people for a special dinner at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. 50 Guests, like him, were born on 27 April 1967, 100 other guests celebrated a special birthday on the same day and were aged 20 to 100. The […]
Continue Reading
On 10 January 1967, on a cold winter’s day, the third daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard, married at the City Hall and later that day in the Great or Saint Jacob’s Church in The Hague. Princess Margriet, born 1943, had chosen to marry a Dutch commoner, Pieter van Vollenhoven. The […]
Continue Reading
I admit I am to blame myself! I missed part of the Christmas exhibition at Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, on Saturday. A tiny part, but anyway … It had been a very busy week, so I did receive the press announcement about it and had just a very quick look at it, […]
Continue Reading