On Saturday, spirits were high in the Netherlands, as the Dutch royals headed to Doetinchem for the annual King’s Day celebrations.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima arrived in Doetinchem for the King’s Day festivities on Saturday, April 26. The holiday is usually celebrated on the King’s birthday, April 27, but because that fell on a Sunday this year, the celebrations were moved to Saturday. (This is why no members of the main line of the Dutch royal family attended the Pope’s funeral, even though Queen Máxima is Catholic. They publicly expressed their regrets at the scheduling conflict. One of the King’s cousins, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma, did attend the funeral mass.)
The King and Queen were joined by their two eldest daughters, the Princess of Orange and Princess Alexia, for the celebrations. (Princess Ariane is away studying at the United World College of the Adriatic.) Also present were the King’s brother and sister-in-law, Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien, as well as four of his cousins and their wives: Prince Maurits and Princess Marilène, Prince Bernhard and Princess Annette, Prince Pieter-Christiaan and Princess Anita, and Prince Floris and Princess Aimée.
King’s Day is always a delightfully lively day, with plenty of games and music and fun. For the occasion, Queen Máxima wore Natan, while Princess Amalia chose a Ralph Lauren cape dress and Princess Alexia wore an ensemble from Maje and Massimo Dutti.
With her royal blue top, skirt, and hat, Máxima wore some gorgeous blue gemstone jewelry. Her earrings, which come from the family vaults, feature diamond and sapphire cluster studs and bright blue sapphire drops. These can be worn in different configurations. The cluster stud is often worn with the family’s Sapphire Figure Eight Earrings, while the sapphire drops have sometimes been worn with long diamond pendant earrings from the family collection.
Máxima also wore the diamond and tanzanite cluster ring from her personal collection on her right hand. She wore her engagement and wedding rings on her left hand, plus bracelets on both wrists: a gold charm bracelet on her left and her cabochon family bracelet on her right.
Princess Amalia wore a pair of on-trend chunky gold hoop earrings with her cornflower blue dress. She’s quickly proving that she’s inherited her mother’s ability to wear big jewelry pieces effortlessly. Per UFO No More, she also wore a hand chain on her left hand.
Amalia’s also following in her mother’s footsteps by stacking her bracelets. On her right wrist, she wore several, including a bangle with the letter A on one of its tips, as well as a bracelet spelling out her name. The ring on her right hand has been in her collection for several years. It’s set with white and blue-green stones.
Alexia wore a mix of pieces from her own jewelry box (her diamond smiley face necklace, her bracelets) and jewelry borrowed from her mother for the King’s Day celebrations.
Her earrings and the cocktail ring on her left hand are all from Roberto Coin, an Italian jewelry brand founded in the 1970s. Both the ring and earrings, which belong to Máxima, are set with diamonds and red enamel in a pattern mimicking scales.
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