On Friday, February 17th 2017, Queen Maxima appeared in the Dordrecht Museum in an olive green Natan dress with a golden brooch from Queen Juliana's vault. And this green fits perfectly with those landscapes populated with birds and other animals painting .

The queen who had accessorised with her New gray Fabienne Delvigne hat, gloves and gray Gianvito Rossi pumps, and a green clutch, Ole Lynggaard earrings, had come to the Dordrechts Museum to inaugurate a new exhibition. Entitled "Royal Paradise" , this one is devoted to the work of the animal painter Aert Schouman (1710-1792), born of this city of the south-east of Rotterdam.


Known for his watercolors of birds, mammals and plants, this Dutch artist is also the author of five large wall hangings made in the 18th century at the request of Prince Willem V, the last stadtholder of the United Provinces. The wife of the sovereign took the time to admire them as these, just restored, will be reinstalled in the palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague, his future home. This royal residence is currently the subject of colossal works for the future installation of King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and their three daughters Princesses Catharina-Amalia, Alexia and Ariane.
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Décidément, la Reine Paola est assez malchanceuse cet hiver 2016-2017. Elle a quitté les Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc à Bruxelles le 3 janvier dernier après une semaine d'hospitalisation à la suite d'une fracture vertébrale et a dû continuer sa convalescence pendant plusieurs mois au Château Belvédère. Elle est hospitalisée de nouveau à l'hôpital. Le Palais a annoncé cette triste nouvelle le jeudi 16 Février 2017, en déclarant qu'elle avait une chute et avait fracturé le cou du fémur. "Il sera exploité aux Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc à Bruxelles" vient-il d'être clarifié.
Sixième reine des Belges, 79 ans née princesse Ruffo di Calabria en Italie. Son mari, ancien roi Albert II, a gouverné la Belgique de 1993 à 2013, lorsqu'il a abdiqué en faveur de son fils aîné, avait 82 ans.
La femme de l'ancien souverain belge - qui a conservé en Belgique le titre de reine - a dû faire face à plusieurs problèmes de santé ces dernières années. Au cours de l'été 2015, souffrant d'arythmie cardiaque, Paola a été contraint à une période de repos totale. Le 28 décembre 2016, la mère du Roi Philippe, de la Princesse Astrid et du Prince Laurent a été hospitalisée aux Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc à Bruxelles pour une fracture vertébrale suite à une chute. Aucun détail n'avait été révélé sur les circonstances exactes de la blessure, mais on avait fait remarquer qu'elle n'avait pas entraîné de complications neurologiques et que la vie des septuagénaires n'était pas en danger.

Decidedly Queen Paola is quite unlucky in this winter 2016-2017. While she had left the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels on last January 3rd after a week of hospitalization following a vertebral fracture and had to continue her convalescence at her Castle Belvedere for several months, She is urgently admitted again to this hospital. The Palace announced this sad news last Thursday, February 16th 2017, stating that she had a fall and had fractured the neck of the femur. "It will be operated at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels" has it just been clarified.

Sixth queen of the Belgians, the 79 year old born princess Ruffo di Calabria in Italy. Her husband, former King Albert II, ruled Belgium from 1993 to 2013, when he abdicated in favor of his eldest son, was 82 years old.

The wife of the former Belgian sovereign - who has retained in Belgium the title of queen - has had to face several health problems in recent years. In the summer of 2015, suffering from cardiac arrhythmia, Paola was forced to a total rest period . On December 28th 2016, the mother of King Philippe, Princess Astrid and Prince Laurent was hospitalized at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels for a vertebral fracture following a fall. No details had been revealed as to the exact circumstances of the injury, but it had been pointed out that it had not resulted in neurological complications and that the life of the septuagenarian was not in danger.

Last October 17th 2016, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway gathered around their children and grandchildren. All the members of the royal family joined their Majesties to pose in front of the camera in a room of the Royal Palace in Oslo for a series of historical clichés to mark the 80th birthday of both the sovereign and his wife.

These beautiful images were kept secret for exactly four months. They were only revealed last Friday, February 17th 2017, just four days before Harald V blew its 80 candles. Three of them have been published on the website of the Palais.

This royal shooting took place in several settings. King Harald V and Queen Sonja, dressed in a white set, were photographed alone, standing, and sitting side by side in gilded wooden chairs. The royal couple was also photographed with their two children Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Märtha Louise. Another image shows them this time with their four granddaughters and their grandsons: Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus - the children of Haakon and Mette-Marit - and Maud Angelica, Leah Isadora and Emma Tallulah- the daughters of Märtha-Louise and Ari Behn. Finally, a beautiful family photo gathered around them their children and grandchildren, to which were joined their daughter-in-law the Princess Mette-Marit and the eldest son of her, Marius Borg Hoiby.


In this gallery of portraits, a photo is missing. The one where King Harald V and his two successors to the Norwegian crown would be seen: his son Crown Prince Haakon and his granddaughter Princess Ingrid Alexandra. The trio has been immortalized over the years. But perhaps this photograph has been realized and not yet revealed. It will be seen this Tuesday, February 21, 2017, J. day of the king's birthday. To be continued…
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