Daily Archives: October 21, 2009
Queen Silvia & Princess Madeleine Mark World Childhood Foundation in NYC
Royal mother and daughter team, Queen Silvia and Princess Madeleine of Sweden, were at the United Nations today to mark the tenth anniversary of the World Childhood Foundation - a charity the Queen began to tackle issues facing many children
worldwide.
The two attended a symposium on child abuse and exploitation at the UN, in which several projects that have worked with WCF were reviewed. The Foundation currently has 500 projects working in 16 countries.
Queen Silvia began WCF in 1999 Read more [...]
Queen Fabiola “Needs Rest”
The Belgian royal court denied speculation Wednesday that Queen Fabiola is in poor health.
Telling the national media, the court said, "she is not ill, just tired.There is nothing wrong. She walks, moves about, but she is tired and needs rest. That is why she is not travelling or going out."
Concern for the sister-in-law to King Albert II began when the dowager Queen did not make any appearances since July 31st, the anniversary of the death of her husband, King Baudouin.
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Sheikh Mohammed Opens Federal National Council
Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum opened the United Arab Emirate's 4th Federal National Council (FNC) session this Wednesday. As Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, it was the Sheikh's duty to read aloud President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's speech, since the President was not in attendance.
Before Sheikh Mohammed read the speech, FNC speaker Abdul Aziz Al-Ghurair renewed the FNC's pledge to ''serve the country and its citizens before Allah, the president, the Read more [...]
