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HRH Princess Maxima of the Netherlands Receives New Stamps.

PssMaximaOn April 2, 2013, Her Royal Highness Princess Maxima of the Netherlands visited the Special Collections Department at the University of Amsterdam to receive the first 1001 Vrouwen (1001 Women) stamps on the occasion of “…of the exhibition, ‘1001 Women in the Dutch history’…”

According to RVD:

“The 1001 Women sheetlet contains ten stamps with portraits of notable women in Dutch history. The four upper and four lower postage stamps are identical, so a total of six women from six different centuries are shown.

The following six women are depicted: The explorer Alexandrine Tinne, the writer Belle van Zuylen Utrecht heroine of the ‘Eighty Years War Trijn of Leemput’, the painter Mary Oosterwijck, the land lady Mary of Burgundy and the theologian Anna Zernike.”

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Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in Breda. (VIDEOS)

On March 27, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands participated in the “…decoration of the ‘Kosovo 1999’ banner ceremony of the Royal Air Force held at the Koninklijke Militaire Academie in Breda.  The banner decoration was added because of the substantial contribution of the Royal Air Force at the NATO campaign against the military presence in Kosovo.”

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Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands in Amsterdam.

Princess MargrietOn March 25, 2013, Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was in Amsterdam to officially open the Drostenburg “…a new building of the Mytylschool and the Noteboomschool in Amsterdam.  The Drostenburg is a school for education and revalidation for students with physical or multiple disabilities or chronic.”

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Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Attends the Opening of a New Exhibition. (VIDEO)

HMQB75On March 22, 2013, Her Majesty Queen attended the opening of a the exhibition entitled, Frans Hals: Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian, held at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.

Per the official website of the Frans Hals Museum:

“The exhibition, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Frans Hals Museum, displays works by the artist Frans Hals amidst paintings by such famous predecessors as Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens. 

This extraordinary confrontation of old masters is essential to the understanding of seventeenth-century art. Famous painters often produced their works in response to one another, seeking to outdo the other artist and create something exceptional. The best way to assess the results of their efforts is to look at comparable works side by side. Visitors can see for themselves the artistic challenges Hals must have faced and what makes him unique.

The paintings come from some of the world’s greatest museums, among them the National Gallery in London, the Prado in Madrid and the Louvre in Paris, and from various private collections.”

Frans Hals: Faced with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian will be open to the public beginning on March 23 – July 28, 2013.  For more information about the exhibition please click here.  

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