Remembrance and Liberation Day: May 4 and 5, 2004-2024

[The Watcher]

4 May 2004
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Pictures of Queen Beatrix, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima

Royal Images

4 May 2004:

Two princes in Baarn

Prince Maurits and Prince Bernhard

Picture of Beatrix and Willem-Alexander

Here a video, first one under 'Mediatheek':
Video

 

[Alexandria]

Thank you very much for these pictures, The Watcher. A very solemn occasion.

I find it 'unusual' (but in a good way!) that Maurits was present at this occasion, but I did not see pictures of Constantijn and Laurentien, or Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven.

Who else was in attendance aside from the Queen, Willem and Maxima, Bernhard and Maurits?

 

[The Watcher]

-Maurits and Bernhard were in Baarn (that's were Prince Bernhard lives)
-Beatrix, WA and Maxima were in Amsterdam
-And Pieter van Vollenhoven in Den Haag/Wassenaar (no pictures)
As every year, but the only different is that Maurits went to Baarn with his grandfather, because that is the first time that this happened (Last years Bernhard was the only royal person who went to Baarn).

 

[The Watcher]

5 May 2004:

Prince Bernhard and Queen Beatrix

:flower:

 

[USCtrojan]

Thank You so much for sharing these photos. Truely a solemn (sp) occasion. Thank You again.

 

[Alexandria]

This thread has now been cleaned up.

Unfortunately some posts had to be removed because of broken links. I hope we can add some more pictures as well as articles back into this thread.

I think this event was one of the last times we saw Prince Bernhard Sr. on an official event.

 

[misshelen]

Remembrance and Liberation Day; May 4th and 5th, 2005

HM The Queen, The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima,
HE the PM Dr.J-P Balkenende present at the National Remembrance ceremony Amsterdam yesterday.

 

[misshelen]

The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima and Queen Beatrix, present at the National Remembrance ceremony Amsterdam yesterday.

 

[misshelen]

more pictures from colourpress

 

[Hannelore]

Her legs and her feet are completely swollen up!

 

[HMQueenElizabethII]

Thanks lots misshelen.

 

[HMQueenElizabethII]

Her majesty yesterday attending a Concert to commemorate 60th Anniversary of the end of WWI:

 

[fanletizia]

Remembrance and Liberation Day: May 4th and 5th, 2006

Queen Beatrix and Crown Prince Willem-Alexnader lay a wreath at the foot of the National War Monument on the Dam in Amsterdam, on Remembrance Day 04 May 2006. The remembrance day is a commemoration annually held on May 04 in the Netherlands to remember all members of the armed forces and civilians of the Kingdom of the Netherlands who died in war situations or peacekeeping missions since the outbreak of the Second World War

from getty and anp

 

[JessRulz]

Some from today's event of Beatrix, W-A & Maxima



Images: Bruno Press

Beatrix looked very nice, but I did not like Maxima's head gear at all!! The feathers were in the wrong spot IMO

 

[mandyy]

Photo from ANP via http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/

 

[fanletizia]

Images from facetoface

 

[fanletizia]

Images from seeger

 

[fanletizia]

Remembrance and Liberation Day: May 4th and 5th, 2006

Images from PPE

 

[Marengo]

I was there during the ceremony on Dam Square. As it was crowded I did not see that much, but caught some glimpses of the royals. The ceremony was solumn, as always. And it seems the crowd gets bigger and bigger each year.

 

[Maxie]

And it seems the crowd gets bigger and bigger each year.

And that's a good thing!
I watched the ceremony on tv, as usual. Every year I'm touched by the solemnity of the people on the Dam square. Hope to go there too, one day.

 

[Kelly]

More from ANP

 

[Kelly]

Although the occasion was solemn, CP Maxima really didn't dress so nice.

 

[Kelly]

From Royal Press

 

[Squidgy]

I was there during the ceremony on Dam Square. As it was crowded I did not see that much, but caught some glimpses of the royals. The ceremony was solumn, as always. And it seems the crowd gets bigger and bigger each year.

That's nice to hear. The same thing is happening in Ottawa (& indeed across Canada) - the number of people coming out for Remembrance Day seems to increase every year. And in large part, I think we have the Dutch to thank for that. In 1995 (50th anniversary of VE Day), Canadians watched the Dutch treat our veterans like heroes. It made the front pages over here & seemed to be a bit of a revelation for us. It was like, if the Dutch are treating our veterans so respectfully, maybe it's time we did as well.

 

[purple_platinum]

a few more from dpa

 

[ropura]

Ceremony Dam Square 4mei 2006 at Amsterdam.


Photo by R.Ismangil.



Ropura

 

[ap3]

Maxima's suit is lovely: great fit and style. I also like the way her hair is pulled back into a soft bun at the nape of her neck. I wonder if she is wearing her hat wrong, that the feather should be on the side, the way I've seen some British soldiers wear the beret with feathers.

 

[Zonk]

Who is the lady walking with Queen Beatrix? Is she a government minister?

 

[lucien]

The lady is Els H.Swaab,Chair of the National Committee 4th/5th of may.

http://www.herdenkenenvieren.nl/hev/english.summary

 

[fanletizia]

12-05-2006 Wilhelmina exhibition - Queen Beatrix has opened the exhibition Queen Wilhelmina, paintings and drawings at palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn. Pieter van Vollenhoven

from PPE