On Friday, November 9, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands visited the province of North Brabant. According to RVD, Her Majesty visited various “… local sustainable development[s] and social and technical innovation in central North Brabant…”
On the agenda for today included a visit a carpet factory in Waalwijk, a tour of a technical training school in Tilburg as well as a visit to Tilburg University where Her Majesty unveiled a sculpture, a tour of the towns of Reusel-de Mierden and Hilvarenbeek, and finally a visit to the Van den Borne Aardappelen business in Reusel.
According to the Dutch newspaper, Reformatorisch Dagblad:
“The center provides a workspace for water managers, meteorologists and administrators to work together in the place where the most current water data are available first.
The center also provides information for water managers on high and low water, ice, storm, drought and other circumstances affecting the safety of Dutch behind the dykes who may be in jeopardy. Also, the center aims to be a platform for all new technologies and developments in the water sector.”
On Monday, November 5, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was at the Paleis Huis ten Bosch in Den Haag to preside over the “… swearing in of the new centrist Dutch government under Prime Minister Mark Rutte…”
The ceremony, which lasted three minutes, took place inside the Oranje Hall.
On November 2, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands received a:
“… publication regarding the excavation results of the pre-historic burial mounds in the crown estates at Paleis Huis Ten Bosch. The publication was developed under the direction of archaeologist Dr. David Fontijn of Leiden University, in collaboration with the Municipality of Apeldoorn and the National Heritage Board.”
And, finally, Her Majesty attended the symposium, The North Sea: Past, Present and Future, in Amsterdam according to the Dutch online newspaper, AT5.
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