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Queen Máxima to focus on financial services and financial health during visit to Colombia. From the afternoon of Sunday 25 February to Wednesday 28 February, Her Majesty Queen Máxima will be visiting Colombia in her role ... News item | 21-02-2024 | 17:00.
In 2018 and 2019, she was included in Apolitical’s Gender Equality Top 100. Mabel Martine Wisse Smit was born in Pijnacker on 11 August 1968 as the eldest daughter of Henk Los and Flos Kooman. After her father's death in 1978, her mother married Peter Wisse Smit. In 1984 Princess Mabel officially took his surname.
The Royal Family. Holland is a fairly young monarchy. Until 1795, the Netherlands was a republic, a federation of states. The Kingdom of the Netherlands was established in 1815, and King William I was its first ruler. The first king of Holland was from the House of Orange-Nassau. The origin of Holland’s motto, ‘Je maintiendrai (“I will ...
William of Orange (1533-1584) The Royal House of the Netherlands is the House of Orange-Nassau. The history of this House has been closely linked with that of the Netherlands since the fifteenth century. Generations of stadholders, kings and queens born into the House of Orange have played an important role in governing our country.
Membership of the Royal House, on the other hand, requires a relationship to the King in the first or second degree. Members of the Royal House in line to the throne also lose their right of succession if they marry without Parliament’s consent. This was the case, for example, in 2004, when Prince Friso married Mabel Wisse Smit.
The Government Information Service (RVD), which falls under the Ministry of General Affairs, has handled communications for the Royal House since 1965. At present, the RVD’s main responsibility with regard to the Royal House is informing the public about the work of King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess Beatrix.
The Constitution specifies that the investiture must take place in the capital city, Amsterdam, at a public joint session of the two Houses of the States General (Parliament) – the Senate and House of Representatives. At the investiture ceremony the new monarch swears or affirms his allegiance to the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands ...
