On Thursday, June 18, 2015, Their Majesties King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, Their Royal Highnesses Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, and His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in Waterloo, Belgium.
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On June 12, 2015, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands attended the Kennis voor Morgen conference in Arnhem.
The conference brings together “…school administrators, teachers, school leaders, and education professionals. Topics at the conference include cultural education, leadership and more…” according to RVD.
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On Friday, June 12, 2015, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands officially opened the Juliana Kinderziekenhuis (Juliana Children’s Hospital) in Den Haag.
After the official opening Her Majesty met with staff as well as patients and was given a tour of the new building which includes a Ronald McDonald House and the Haga Juliana Geboortecentrum (Birth Center).
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On Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands attended the Kinderen Maken Muziek concert, an initiative of the Oranje Fonds, held at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.
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On June 10, 2015, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands attended the 10th commemoration of the Tuin van Bezinning (The Garden of Reflection) in Warnsveld.
The garden is a “…memorial place for families and friends of police officers during the course of their work were killed by an accident or violence…” according to the photo agency, PPE.
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On Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands opened a new wing at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPIP) in Nijmegen.
The purpose of the MPIP is to:
“…undertake basic research into the psychological,social and biological foundations of language. The goal is to understand how our minds and brains process language, how language interacts with other aspects of mind, and how we can learn languages of quite different types.”
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On June 9, 2015, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands visited the Stichting New Dutch Connections in Driebergen. The refugee assistance organization recently won the 2015 Appeltje van Oranje award.
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