Princess Margriet & Prof Pieter van Vollenhoven, Current Events 3 (Dec 2008-Mar 2018)

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Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven opened the Monumentendag 2016 in 's-Hertogenbosch today, September 8. The theme of this year's Heritage Day is "Icons and symbols".


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Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the premiere of the new Introdans show in Arnhem yesterday evening, September 30. Introdans also celebrated its 45th anniversary.



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** ddp: Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven at Introdans Jubilee **

 

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Princess Margriet opened the new health centre Da Costa in Putten today, November 10:


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Princess Margriet opened the new health centre Da Costa in Putten today, November 10:


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Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven to visit New York – Royal Central

By now Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven started their visit to New York City.

Yesterday, November 17, they attended the rehearsel of the baroque orchestra and choir of the Koninklijk Conservatorium and the Juilliard school:


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The conductor seems to be Ton Koopman. He is the conductor of the Amsterdam Bach orchestra, which mainly focusses on Bach. The students played the Hohe Messe.

I believe princess Margriet once said that it took her years to start to like Bach, as at kindergarten she and her schoolmates were expected to lay down on a blanket after lunch and listen to Bach music.

The princess and Mr. van Vollenhoven will still attend the annual Stuyvesant ball (35th edition) and will a dance performance of the NDT.

 

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What a childhood trauma

Yesterday, November 18, they attended the mentioned 35th Peter Stuyvesant Ball as Patrons of the Netherland-America Foundation:


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Yes, the school of the princesses was a very progressive and idealistic type of school, set up with the money or Mrs Beatrice Boeke née Cadbury (from the chocolate indeed). The idea was that children should explore the world by themselves and that there was no enforced school goal. How really free and not-enforced that school program was, is open for debate.

In the television program Margriet 65, more than a princess she told: "Such a school where everything was different, and new, and therefore we learned absolutely nothing. Because everything had to be very creative, and especially no discipline, and more of that sort of things. In fact I was very happy when I was allowed to leave that school. It was so "forced idealistic". After lunch we had to lie on horse-hair blankets and then listen to Bach. That was an obligation."

 

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Yesterday, November 19, Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the ballet performance of the Dutch Dance Theater in New York City:


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Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven opened the exhibition CANADIAN INUIT ART at the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden today, March 10:


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Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven opened the WWII and Aviation Museum in Fort Vuren today, May 10:



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Here's an additional gallery of the first day of the couple's visit to Canada, I hope there'll be a good coverage during the coming days!


** rd.nl: Prinses Margriet en Pieter van Vollenhoven bezoeken Canadese stad Brampton **

 

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Day 2 in Canada, May 14, and the couple attended a ceremony in Stratford:



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Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven visited the McMaster University in Hamilton today, May 15:



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Day 4 in Canada today, May 16, and Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven visited a school in Burlington that has an exchange relationship with schools in Apeldoorn:


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Today, May 17, was the final day of the couple's visit to Canada, they spent in Toronto and visited the 48th Highlanders Museum:


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The visit to Canada is over, but here are still some more pics



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** mcmaster: Dutch royalty visit campus **


** rd.nl article and gallery: Margriet en Pieter bij 48th Highlanders ** translation **


** rd.nl: Bezoek prinses Margriet: Canada wil warme band met Nederland houden ** translation **

 

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The Royal House released a statement today that Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven was diagnosed with a new melanoma. He will undergo surgery in Amsterdam shortly, his attendance at an event tomorrow has been cancelled:


** koninklijkhuis.nl: Melanoom vastgesteld bij prof. mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven ** translation **

 

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The Royal House released a statement today that Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven was diagnosed with a new melanoma. He will undergo surgery in Amsterdam shortly, his attendance at an event tomorrow has been cancelled:


** koninklijkhuis.nl: Melanoom vastgesteld bij prof. mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven ** translation **

How sad!It will be the umptiest time since 2001 when the melanoma was first diagnosed that he has to undergo poli-clinic surgery at the Anthony van Leeuwenhoek cancer hospital,Amsterdam.Wish him well!!

 

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Wishing Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven the very best!

 

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On June 1 Princess Margriet as Patron visited the headquarters of the KNCV Tuberculosis Fund in Den Haag:


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Here are some more pics:


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On June 11 and 12 Princess Margriet made a working visit to SOS Children's Villages in Libanon. Margriet is Patron of the SOS Children's Villages since 1984 and made the journey together with Dutch singer Jan Smit again. The visit mainly focussed on projects for children as refugees.



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** koninklijkhuis.nl: Prinses Margriet brengt werkbezoek aan SOS Kinderdorpen in Libanon ** translation **

 

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Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven opened the St. Gerlach Pavilion & Kasteelhoeve in Valkenburg today, June 14. Good to see Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven back again after the latest health news..


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** limburger.nl: Pieter van Vollenhoven opent nieuwbouw Sint-Gerlach ** translation **


** tvvalkenburg: Koninklijk bezoek bij opening Paviljoen in Houthem ** translation **

 

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Today, June 15, Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the conference "The World Needs More Canada? Changes and Challenges in Contemporary Canadian Culture and Society" in Nijmegen:


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Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven opened the 2nd location of the museum MORE at Castle Ruurlo today, June 23:



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Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the END OF SEASON show by Introdans in Arnhem yesterday, June 24:


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Princess Margriet opened the international congress Vision 2017 in Den Haag today, June 26. Theme of the congress is "Low vision rehabilitation, a global right".


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Pieter van Vollenhoven during today the opening of the Grebbelinie visitors center, located on Fort aan de Buursteeg, in Renswoude.
The 200 year old WWII defensive line runs from Rhenen to Spakenburg.

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Princess Margriet attended the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Royal Association of Dutch Shipowners in Rotterdam today, June 29:


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