#prince pieter christiaan

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The Dutch Royal Family attend the Dutch Grand Prix F1 race on August 27, 2023 in Zandvoort, Netherlands.

[ifreakingloveroyals]

Happy 18th Anniversary Pieter-Christiaan and Anita! (m. 25/27 August 2005)

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“Prince Pieter-Christiaan van Vollenhoven is such a DADDY 🤤” - Submitted by Anonymous

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✵ August 27, 2005✵

Anita van Eijk & Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven

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Members of the Van Vollenhoven family also are present: Prince Maurits with His son Lucas and Prince Floris with his eldest brother, Prince Pieter-Christiaan.

📷 ANP - Robín Utrecht

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Circuit Zandvoort - the Royal Connection

Co-owner Prince Bernhard Jr. and director Robert van Overdijk help clean up after the 2021 Dutch GP.

Prins Bernhard Jr. raced for years at Zandvoort in Racing Team Holland, which also included his brother Prince Pieter-Christiaan and former F1 driver Jan Lammers. Together with his teammate Ricardo van der Ende, he won the 2014 GT4 European championship in Monza. Finally, after years of trying, he was able to buy Circuit Zandvoort with his company in 2016.

Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Racing Team Holland prepares for training for the GT4 European championship.

Prince Bernhard Jr. and Prince Pieter-Christiaan are first cousins of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (who also attended the first race back at Zandvoort in 2021 with his family).

📸 De Volkskrant

Sources: Twitter; De Volkskrant; Wikipedia

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KING WILLEM ALEXANDER, PRINCESS MARGRIET, PRINCE PIETER-CHRISTIAAN AND PRIME MINISTER AT INVICTUS GAMES THE HAGUE

13 APR 2022

His Majesty the King, Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, His Highness Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Prime Minister Rutte will attend the Invictus Games. The international sports event for physically and mentally wounded soldiers will take place from 16 to 22 April in the Zuiderpark in The Hague.

Source: RVD

The Invictus Games were created by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, to encourage recovery through sport, support rehabilitation and generate wider understanding and respect for wounded soldiers and veterans. Princess Margriet, Honorary Chair of the Committee of Recommendation for the Invictus Games The Hague 2020, Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Prime Minister Rutte will attend the opening ceremony, as will Minister Helder for Long-Term Care and Sport and Commander of the Armed Forces General Eichelsheim. The Prime Minister and the Duke of Sussex give speeches on the importance of the Invictus Games.

The opening ceremony will focus on the five hundred participating athletes from twenty countries and their families and friends. After the taptoe and a minute of silence for fallen soldiers worldwide, a flag parade will follow during which athletes will present the flags of the participating countries. In addition, there are various performances. Prior to the opening ceremony, Princess Margriet, Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Prime Minister Rutte briefly meet the Dutch team to wish them success.

On Wednesday morning, April 20, the Prime Minister will attend the finals of the indoor rowing event and present the medals. On Friday afternoon, April 22, King Willem-Alexander will attend the finals of wheelchair basketball. In the evening the King will meet the Dutch athletes of the Invictus team and talk with them about their experiences of the past week. Afterwards, he will attend the closing ceremony, which is also attended by Minister Ollongren of Defense. Both the Duke of Sussex and the Commander of the Armed Forces will give speeches during the closing ceremony.

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Koningsdag 2017: Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Princess Anita attend celebrations in Tilburg, Netherlands.

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Royal Birthdays for today, March 22nd:

Go-Horikawa, Emperor of Japan, 1212

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459

John II Casimir, King of Poland, 1609

Hedwig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden, 1759

Wilhelm I, German Emperor, 1797

Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 1956

Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, 1972

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Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Princess Anita

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Pieter Hardimé - Magnificent still life and a vase of flowers and a parrot in a niche - 

oil on canvas, Height: 135 cm (53.1 in); Width: 72 cm (28.3 in)

Pieter Hardimé (25 November 1677, Antwerp - September 1748, The Hague) was a Flemish painter known for his paintings of flowers. He trained in Antwerp and later moved to the Dutch Republic where he worked in The Hague. He was active as a decorative painter of flowers for wall and ceiling decorations, often in collaboration with Mattheus Terwesten.

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, or United Provinces (officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands), commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a federal republic which existed from 1588 (during the Dutch Revolt) to 1795 (the Batavian Revolution). It was a predecessor state of the Netherlands and the first fully independent Dutch nation state.

The republic was established after several Dutch provinces revolted against rule by Spain, as the Spanish Netherlands. The provinces formed a mutual alliance against Spain in 1579 (the Union of Utrecht) and declared their independence in 1581 (the Act of Abjuration).

Although the state was small and contained only around 1.5 million inhabitants, it controlled a worldwide network of seafaring trade routes. Through its trading companies, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (GWC), it established a Dutch colonial empire. The income from this trade allowed the Dutch Republic to compete militarily against much larger countries. It amassed a huge fleet of 2,000 ships, larger than the fleets of England and France combined. Major conflicts were fought in the Eighty Years' War against Spain (from the foundation of the Dutch Republic until 1648), the Dutch–Portuguese War (1602–1663), four Anglo-Dutch Wars against the Kingdom of England (1652–1654, 1665–1667, 1672–1674 and 1780–1784), the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678), and War of the Grand Alliance (1688–1697) against the Kingdom of France.

The republic was more tolerant of different religions and ideas than its contemporary states were, allowing freedom of thought to its residents. Artists flourished under this regime, including painters such as Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer and many others. So did scientists, such as Hugo Grotius, Christiaan Huygens and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Because Dutch trade, science, military, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world during much of the 17th century, this period became known in Dutch history as the Dutch Golden Age.

The republic was a confederation of provinces each with a high degree of independence from the federal assembly, known as the States General. In the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) the republic gained approximately 20% more territory, located outside the member provinces, which was ruled directly by the States General as Generality Lands. Each province was led by an official known as the stadtholder (Dutch for 'steward'); this office was nominally open to anyone, but most provinces appointed a member of the House of Orange. The position gradually became hereditary, with the Prince of Orange simultaneously holding most or all of the stadtholderships, making them effectively the head of state. This created tension between political factions: the Orangists favoured a powerful stadtholder, while the Republicans favoured a strong States General. The Republicans forced two Stadtholderless Periods, 1650–1672 and 1702–1747, with the latter causing national instability and the end of Great Power status.

Economic decline led to a period of political instability known as the Patriottentijd (1780-87). This unrest was temporarily suppressed by a Prussian invasion in support of the stadtholder. The French Revolution and subsequent War of the First Coalition caused these tensions to reignite. Following military defeat by France, the stadtholder was expelled in the Batavian Revolution of 1795. This ended the Dutch Republic; it was succeeded by the Batavian Republic.

[ifreakingloveroyals]

Happy 51st Birthday Pieter-Christiaan Michiel! (b. 22 March 1972)

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Happy birthday to Princess Margriet Francisca of the Netherlands! 

HRH was born in Ontario, Canada in 1943 to Princess Juliana, the future Queen, and Prince Bernhard. She was not born in her home country because the Dutch Royal Family were exiled during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. When Margriet was born, they had the maternity ward at the hospital temporarily declared extraterritorial so that she could be solely Dutch and therefore in the line of succession. She first went to the Netherlands two years later. Since then, Princess Margriet has been Vice President of the Netherlands Red Cross and President of the European Cultural Foundation. She is married to Pieter van Vollenhoven and together they have four kids: Prince Maurits, Prince Bernhard, Prince Pieter-Christiaan, and Prince Floris.

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✵ August 27, 2005✵

Anita van Eijk & Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven

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The Invictus Games have started! Princess Margriet, Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Dutch Prime Minister Rutte are present at the opening ceremony of the international sporting event for physically and mentally injured soldiers. They will talk to the Dutch athletes beforehand.

📷 Royal House of The Netherlands

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netherlands!

Dutch princess Anita of Orange-Nassau was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her husband, Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau studied in Lausanne. He lost his succession to the throne by his marriage to Anita

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