Having just returned from their state visit to France, The sovereign couple were on Saturday taking part in the National Voluteering Day which included a spring cleaning in a playground in Alphen aan den Rijn.
They had traded the glitz and glamour of the previous night for a pressure hose with one hand, a scrub brush on the other. As for her husband, King Willem-Alexander, also in jeans, he was pushing a wheelbarrow filled with sand.
Like every year,  Willem-Alexander and Maxima take part in all simplicity to NLdoet, Dutch National Volunteer Day organized by the Oranje Foundation. The King and Queen of the Netherlands had chosen to mobilize this year in Alphen aan den Rijn. On the program: cleaning play structures for children and filling of the sandbox of a recreational area created in 1951 in a district of this city of 73,000 souls between Leiden and Utrecht.

Willem-Alexander and Maxima werent the only members of the Dutch royal family to roll up their sleeves for the two days of national volunteering. On Friday, March 11, the former Queen now Princess Beatrix was handling a small paint roller in an equestrian therapy center for disabled and handicapped in Den Dolder on the outskirts of Utrecht, with Princess Aimée, the wife of her nephew Prince Floris who was armed with secateurs to cut branches with his cousin Prince Constantijn to make feasible the forest trails used by riders of this structure and the adapted carriage for people with multiple disabilities.
As for Princess Margriet she polished together her husband Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven venerable fire truck in a museum in Borculo, east of the country.
Photo Credits:Paris Match