On Friday, May 31, 2013, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands opened the new Arnhem-Leeuwarden courthouse in the Grote of Jacobijnerkerk in Leeuwarden.
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Photo courtesy of HKH/RVD
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Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands Opens the Museum de Fundatie.
On Friday, May 31, 2013, Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands opened the renovated Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. The museum “…offers a top collection of visual art, attractive exhibitions in high-quality premises…”
During today’s opening three new exhibitions were introduced and there was a performance by the Nederlands Symfonieorkest. The museum will be open to the public on June 1, 2013. For more information about the Museum de Fundatie please visit their official website here.
Video about the museum.
Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands Gives a Speech in Den Haag.
On the morning of May 31, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands arrived in Den Haag to attend the symposium, Financial Unconscious, of the platform, Wijzer in Geldzaken.
According to RVD, the symposium “…focuses on how consumers understand, in the current economic times, their personal financial situation.” During today’s event Her Majesty gave a speech along with the former director of the Sociaal en Cutureel Planbureau, Professor Paul Schnabel and Ms. Esther-Mirrjam Sent, to name a few.
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Photo courtesy of HKH/RVD
News Regarding TMs King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. (VIDEOS)
On the morning of Thursday, May 30, 2013, Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands began their one-day tour of the provinces of Gelderland and Utrecht.
According to RVD, today’s visit is “…part of a series of twelve visits that brings the King and Queen, after the change of rule on April 30, 2013, to all provinces in the Netherlands where they will have a chance to meet the people…” and vice versa.
To view photos from today’s tour please click here and here.
News Regarding Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. (VIDEOS)
Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands arrived in Hillegom this afternoon to officially open Fioretti College’s new building and exhibition. Upon her arrival the queen was warmly greeted by school officials as well as by hundreds of students.
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And, finally, yesterday morning Her Majesty Queen Maxima and His Majesty King Willem-Alexander visited the provinces of Groningen and Drenthe. To view photos from yesterday’s visit please click here. Or, you can watch the videos below.
HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands Attends the 2013 European Inventor Awards. (VIDEO)
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands arrived at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam this afternoon to attend the 2013 European Inventor Awards organized and presented by the European Patent Office. These awards “…honors outstanding inventors for their contribution to social, economic and technological progress.”
Per the European Patent Office the recipients of the 2013 European Inventor Awards:
“The Research Award went to Mr. Patrick Couvreur, Ms. Barbara Stella, Ms. Véronique Rosilio, Mr. Luigi Cattel, from Paris-Sud University, for their invention of nano-capsules.
The Industry Award went to Mr. Claus Hämmerle and Mr. Klaus Brüstle, from Austrian manufacturer Julius Blum, for their invention of a damper system for soft closing of furniture doors, drawers and wall cabinets called ‘Blumotion’.
The Lifetime Achievement award went to Mr. Martin Schadt, of Switzerland, inventor of the world’s first flat-panel liquid crystal display, better known as LCD, which has paved the way for the low-energy devices, such as flat screens, tablet computers and mobile phones, now used by millions of people worldwide.
The Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Award went to Mr. Pål Nyrén of Sweden, for inventing pyrosequencing ─ a far faster, less complicated and cheaper method of sequencing DNA strands.
The Popular Prize Award went to Mr. José Luis López Gómez of Spain, whose invention to use a unique ‘independent guided’ wheel design rather than a standard axle on high-speed passenger trains makes those trains some of the most comfortable and safe in the industry.
The Non-European Countries Award went to Mr. Ajay V Bhatt, Mr. Bala Sudarshan Cadambi, Mr. Jeff Morris, Mr. Shaun Knoll, Ms. Shelagh Callahan, from the US, for creating and developing the industry standard Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology.”
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Photos courtesy of the EPO Press Channel/M.Kooren
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands in Den Haag.
On Monday, May 27, 2013, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands arrived in Den Haag to participate in the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The ICTY is a:
“…United Nations court of law dealing with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990’s. Since its establishment in 1993 it has irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law and provided victims an opportunity to voice the horrors they witnessed and experienced.”
If you are interested in learning more about the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia or would like to read several speeches made during today’s event please click here.
Photo courtesy of HKH/RVD
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