Friso & Mabel Changed Mabel's Wikipedia Page

The RVD announced a few days ago, after much talk in the Dutch media, that Prince Friso and Princess Mabel had in fact altered the Princess' Wikipedia page in 2006. The pair had used a computer inside Huis ten Bosch - Queen Beatrix's residence in The Hague - to change the phrase "gave misleading and false information" (in reference to the information Mabel gave to the Dutch parliament about her relationship with a drug lord prior to her marriage to Friso) to "gave misleading information". The article has since been restored to its prior content.

Article from MSNBC.com - "Dutch royals caught revising Wikipedia"

September 2007 Calender

September 2007 Calender for the Danish, Dutch and Norwegian Royal Families

September 1: NED - 40th Birthday Celebrations of Willem-Alexander
September 3: NED - Máxima will open "De Kamers"
September 4: NED - Beatrix will open the new campus of Wageningen University
September 4: DEN - Joachim will visit the Moesgaard Museum
September 5: NED - Máxima will open the art exhibition "Me and the Other & the Other and Me"
September 5: NOR - Sonja will attend the opening of the 2007-2008 season of the Oslo Filharmonic Orchestra
September 6: NOR - Harald and Märtha Louise host a Luncheon for the Princess Märtha Louise Fund
September 6: NOR - Harald will attend the Anders Jahre Award Ceremony
September 6: NOR - Mette-Marit will attend the Grieg Gala with the Bergen Filharmonic Orchestra
September 8: NED - Beatrix will attend a concert by the World Orchestra for Peace
September 8: NOR - Harald will attend the opening of the 120th Autumn Exhibition
September 8: DEN - Mary will attend the Circus Benneweis Gala Performance for the Mental Health Fund
September 9: DEN - Mary will attend a golf tournament in Helsingør
September 10: NOR - Märtha Louise will attend the event marking the dissolution of The Norwegian Sports Organization for the Disabled
September 11: NED - Beatrix & Máxima will attend the premiere of the Hans van Manen Festival
September 12-13: DEN - State Visit from Brazil
September 12: NED - Beatrix will open the new venue for the Amsterdam Archives
September 12: NED - Laurentien will make a speech at the World Illiteracy Day
September 13-14: NOR - State Visit from Brazil
September 14: NED - Beatrix will open the new venue of the Rijksdienst Art-Historical Documentation
September 15: NOR - Mette-Marit will attend the feast and gala performance of the OsloHimmel Festival
September 17-21: DEN - Frederik & Mary (with Isabella) will visit New York
September 18: NED - Prinsjesdag
September 18: NOR - Haakon attends the event marking the 10th anniversary of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
September 20: NOR - Mette-Marit will visit Svalbard
September 22: NOR - 36th Birthday of Märtha-Louise
September 22: NED - Willem-Alexander will attend the opening of the exhibition "P. Struycken, the Digital Paradise"
September 23: DEN - Frederik & Mary will award the Kronprinsparrets Kulturpris
September 25: NED - 39th Birthday of Friso
September 26: NED - Willem-Alexander will attend the opening of the "Mosae Forum"
September 30: NOR - 35th Birthday of Ari

July 2007 Calender

July 2007 Calender for the Danish, Dutch and Norwegian Royal Families

July 1: DEN - Christening of Lilleprinsesse
July 1: NOR - Haakon & Mette-Marit at Christening of Lilleprinsesse in Denmark
July 4: NED - Laurentien opens the new venue of the Brede School
July 4-6: NED - Willem-Alexander at 119th Session of the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala
July 4-8: NOR - 70th Birthday Celebrations of Queen Sonja
July 4-8: NED - Beatrix & Máxima at 70th Birthday Celebrations of Queen Sonja in Norway
July 4-8: DEN - Margrethe, Henrik & Frederik at 70th Birthday Celebrations of Queen Sonja in Norway
July 4-8: DEN - Joachim is Regent
July 7: NED - Laurentien opens the new Central Library Amsterdam
July 11: DEN - Frederik at the 100th Anniversary of Skagen Harbour
July 11: DEN - Margrethe & Henrik hold an audience with the French Ambassador
July 17: DEN - Margrethe & Henrik visit Sønderborg
July 17: DEN - Margrethe & Henrik take up residence at Gråsten Palace
July 17: NED - Friso unveils the Delfi-C3
July 20: NOR - 34th Birthday of Haakon
July 21: NED - Margriet & Pieter open the Kingdom Games
July 22: DEN - 5th Birthday of Felix
July 27: NED - Beatrix, Margriet & Pieter at the Closing Ceremony of the Kingdom Games
July 29: DEN - Henrik to attend a celebration of composer Dietrich Buxtehudes
July 30: DEN - Margrethe will receive the Ambassador for Luxembourg

Friso & Mabel at AmsterdamDinner

Prince Friso and Princess Mabel attended the AmsterdamDinner, to raise money for aids prevention, on June 23rd in Amsterdam.

PPE Picture Gallery here

Copyright: PPE/Edwin Veloo

Dutch Royals at the Opening of the Lustrum Symposium

Princess Máxima, in her capacity as Chair of the Curatorium, yesterday opened the Lustrum Symposium of the Prince Claus Chair at Noordeinde Palace. Queen Beatrix, Prince Willem-Alexander and Prince Friso were also in attendance.

PPE Picture Gallery here

Added: Máxima's speech:

Your Majesty, Professor Fresco, Dear Chair holders, Ladies and gentlemen,

It is with great pleasure that I now open this symposium to celebrate the fifth chair holder of the Prince Claus Chair on Development and Equity, on behalf of its Curatorium. A very special welcome to prof. Louise Fresco, who will deliver the key note lecture, and to our five Chair Holders, professors Mansoob Murshed, Amina Mama, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Rema Hammami, and Nasira Jabeen. A very special word of thanks to Her Majesty, for her incredible hospitality. It is amazing to be able to celebrate this in your Palace and with your presence. Thank you!
Five years already, time flies. After the passing away of my father in law, Prince Claus, the idea of this Chair arose. Prince Claus was strongly committed to development and equity in North-South relations. Through his work, his travels and his contacts he gained a deep understanding of the opportunities for equitable development. But also a deep understanding of the obstacles to it. His views, and above all his attitude towards people in the developing world became a source of inspiration to many, and still is.
In commemoration and respect for his work, the Utrecht University and the Institute of Social Studies together shaped this chair. The Chair aims to stimulate research and teaching in development and equity by establishing a rotating professorship. The two participating institutions will alternately appoint an outstanding young academic from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean or the Pacific to the Chair.
The Prince Claus Chair was launched in a special academic ceremony in the Dom Church in Utrecht on March 2003. In this same ceremony and in view of the 50th anniversary of ISS, Utrecht University awarded an honorary doctorate to the then President of the Inter-American Development Bank, dr. Enrique V. Iglesias. His work has always focused on the relation between economy and administration on one side and civil society on the other. A person Prins Claus was very fond of.

From the very beginning, we have been very fortunate with excellent candidates. We started with dr. Mansoob Murshed, an economist from Bangladesh, who works in the field of trade and freedom as well as that of peace and conflict management. We then had the honour of having dr. Amina Mama, from Nigerian/South African background, who was appointed for her contribution to the academic field of African Culture and its relationship to development. In 2004-2005 we had dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado with us, a sociologist from Mexico, who had contributed already significantly to academic research on indigenous rights and migration, particularly in Latin America and the United States. Last year dr. Rema Hammami, from Palestinian background, was our Chairholder. She was appointed for her contribution to peace and co-existence in the Palestinian Territories. And this year we have the pleasure to have in our midst dr. Nasira Jabeen, from Pakistan, who is an expert on the possibilities and constraints of good governance as a concept in the developing world.
To all five we say ‘Thank you’, thank you for being such excellent representatives of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity. You have been willing to leave your own country, your university, your family and friends to come to the Netherlands. You have engaged in education and research and you have participated in publications, lectures, seminars, etc. And you have also contributed to outreach activities. To take one example, dr. Rivera-Salgado was involved in a project on Human Rights and Migration, in which pupils from secondary schools studied the theme from different angles, and presented the results to experts and to each other at a concluding seminar in Utrecht.
Ladies and gentlemen, the variety in backgrounds and academic expertise reflects the complexity of development and equity. It also reflects the necessity of contributions from different disciplines to gain a more profound insight into ways and means through which development and equity can be encouraged. The Curatorium hopes that the activities of the Prince Claus Chair contribute to this goal.
Personally, I am delighted to be part of this process. To be able to give a platform to these talented people in Europe means more opportunity for us to learn from them and their ideas. I hope in consequence that our Chairholders will therefore become stronger voices in their regions of origin. As Prins Claus said in one of his 23 statements at the ISS ‘freedom of speech as an essential element in any form of democracy and therefore a prerequisite for true development’. With all my heart, I wish that we continue to support these academics as just one way for us to contribute to development in the strong belief that people develop themselves within their own cultural environment.

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