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The attack took place on the Dutch national holiday of Koninginnedag (or Queen's Day). [3] [4] The driver deliberately drove through people lining the street watching the parade, resulting in eight deaths, including the attacker, and ten injuries. [1] [5] [6] [7] The car missed the royal family and crashed into a monument at the side of the ...
Beatrix was born during the reign of her maternal grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, and became heiress presumptive upon the accession of her mother, Queen Juliana, in 1948. Beatrix attended a public primary school in Canada during World War II , and then finished her primary and secondary education in the Netherlands in the post-war period.
Queen Beatrix (born 1938) was the Queen of Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. Queen Beatrice or Queen Beatrix may also refer to: Beatrix of Bavaria (died 1359), Queen consort of Eric XII of Sweden; Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia, (1320–1383), Queen consort of Bohemia by marriage to John of Bohemia
Following the news that Princess Diana had been in a car crash, Queen Elizabeth gave what the author of a new royals biography called an "astonishing remark." A source for the new book says the ...
Police officer denies causing death by careless driving in royal escort crash. ... stepped from her car at the Grand Entrance. ... Hampton Court Palace in honor of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands ...
On 31 January, Queen Beatrix's 64th birthday, there was a black-tie dinner and ball at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam for 500 guests to celebrate the impending wedding and The Queen's birthday. [citation needed] The day before the wedding, there was a lunch and concert at the Royal Concertgebouw attended by 1,600 guests.
In another wedding portrait, the two families pose together: Charles with his parents, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and his sons, Princes William and Harry, and Camilla with her father ...
Hundreds of people were left homeless by the crash; the city's municipal buses were used to transport survivors to emergency shelters. Firefighters and police were also forced to deal with reports of looting in the area. [14] Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and Queen Beatrix visited the scene of the disaster the following afternoon. The prime ...