Daily Archives: October 17, 2013

British Royals

News Regarding Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. (VIDEO)

Princess Anne, Princess RoyalWell, it sure was quite a busy day for Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.

Today, the princess visited the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex where she “…opened the Paediatric Ward and Operating Theatres…” according to the British royal court.

The Princess Royal also visited the Royal Marines School of Music, the Block Mills as well as opened the Portsmouth Citizens Advice Bureau in, well, Portsmouth.

For more information about today’s activities please click the links below.

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Belgian Royals

Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium Attends ‘Fashion Talks: Get Inspired in Antwerp’ (VIDEO)

MathildeOn the morning of October 17, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium accompanied by the Minster-President of Flanders, Mr. Kris Peeters, attended, Fashion Talks: Get inspired in Antwerp.

According to the official site for today’s event, Fashion Talks is “…the first major international fashion conference in Belgium.”

Click here to view photos.

Click here to watch a video news report.

 
Dutch Royal Family

News Regarding HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. (VIDEO)

TheKingWAOn the morning of October 17, 2013, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands arrived in Den Haag to officially open the new building of the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken and Koninkrijksrelaties and the Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Ministry of Security and Justice).

Thereafter, His Majesty arrived at the Special Collections Department at the Universiteit van Amsterdam to open the special exhibition, Atlas der Neederlanden: De Dageraad van het Koninkrijk.

According to RVD the Atlas, “…consists of nine parts and contains 618 maps of the Netherlands from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.”

Atlas der Neederlanden: De Dageraad van het Koninkrijk will be open to the public on October 18, 2013 – January 19, 2014.  If you are interested in learning more about the restoration of the Atlas please click here (in English).

Click here to watch a video from NOS about the Atlas.

Photo courtesy of RVD/HKH