Suriname and the Dutch Antilles always have had a warm heart for our Royal Family. During the war years, Juliana and Bernhard visited the...
Noordeinde Palace used to be known as het Oude Hof (the Old court). The oldest part of the palace dates from before 1512. In that...
At the beginning of 1896, the 15-year-old Wilhelmina began to develop into a young woman, this also included a different hairstyle. Up until then she...
From 1715 to 1837 there was a personal union between England and Hannover (a construction in which two states have the same head of...
Clay objects have been made for thousands of years, when clay is baked at a temperature of 800-1000 degrees Celsius, pottery is created. About...
A special form of glass art is the portrait glass. Portraits of royalty, soldiers and other famous persons were depicted on it. The first portrait...
When King Willem III died in November 1890, Princess Wilhelmina became Queen. As Wilhelmina was only 10 years old, her mother Queen Emma became Queen Regent...
The invention of paper goes back about 2000 years in China during the Han Dynasty. It is logical that not long after something was devised to...
On April 30th, it will be forty years since Queen Beatrix ascended the throne. A few months earlier, on January 31st 1980, Queen Juliana informed...
A medal of honor is an award in the Netherlands. The term is used for medals that one can sometimes wear and sometimes not. Both...
