King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain‘s last day of Netherlands State visit started with a busy agenda. While Felipe has solo engagements and joint engagements with King Willem-Alexander of Netherlands, Queen Letizia of Spain joined Queen Maxima of Netherlands for two joint engagements. The Spanish Royal Couple was officially received by the Dutch Royal Couple yesterday and a state Banquet was hosted in the evening to celebrate the bilateral relationship.
Queen Letizia and Queen Maxima jointly visited LAB6 organization, where they learn about their Social Project, a unique neighbourhood collaboration to provide vulnerable young people with early help to meet their needs. LAB6 emerged from the collaboration of several youth organizations in Amsterdam’s New West.
LAB6 offers young people from Amsterdam and surrounding areas the opportunity to develop in the creative and social sphere. 6 in LAB6 means the six districts of the city of Amsterdam and aims to reach all the young people of Amsterdam.
Walk-in facilities offer young people a place where they feel welcome and no one is alone when things are going a little less. Queen Maxima is honorary chairman of the MIND Us Foundation, a foundation that is committed to the mental health of young people. Queen Letizia has been a strong champion of mental health in Spain since being the member of the Royal Family and is patron of various organizations working in the field of Mental health.
During the visit to the center, Letizia and Maxima toured the coaching classroom; the radio and music studio; the classroom of influencers and projects; and has held a meeting with psychologists, volunteers and young people participating in the Project.
Both Queen Letizia and Queen Maxima also share a common bond of loss and pain – their sisters committed suicide after suffering from mental health. In 2007, Queen Letizia’s younger sister, Erika Ortiz, took her own life, and in June 2018, Queen Maxima’s sister, Inés Zorreguieta, was found dead in her home in Argnetina.
The next stop on their agenda was the Royal Tuschinski Theatre, where they attended a colloquium marking the ten years of the Spanish Film Festival of Amsterdam ASFF (Spanish Film Festival in Amsterdam).
Various Spanish films are being screened “CampeoneX,” Javier Fesser, the board of ASFF Mercedes Martinez Abarca, the director of Filmfonds (Dutch film aid institution), Sandra Den Hamer, directorAmsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and the head of Filmeducatie – Eye Filmmuseum-, Margreet Cornelius at the Royal Theatre.
This film festival is aimed at strengthening mutual cultural awareness through Spanish and Latin American cinema in the Netherlands. This year the Spanish Film Festival will take place from 12 to 21 April in Amsterdam, Amstelveen and Haarlem.
In the evening, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain will be hosting a a reception at STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam in the honour of their hosts, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of Netherlands before heading home.
What Queen Letizia of Spain wore on Day 2 of Netherlands State Visit
- Carolina Herrera Wool Crepe Coat – Repeat
- Carolina Herrera Orange Dress – Repeat from Sweden State Visit in 2022
- Diamond and Citrus Earrings – Repeat
- Coreterno Ring – Repeat
- Olivia Mareque Pantone Bag – New
- Magrit Marian slingback pumps – Repeat
