King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima are travelling to the United States next week for a three-city working visit, with stops in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Miami scheduled from April 13 to 15.
According to the Royal House, the visit will address maritime manufacturing, innovation, culture, technology, water, and healthcare. It’ll also include an overnight stay in the White House.
Throughout the rest of the trip, they’re joined by the Dutch ministers of Foreign Affairs, Development Cooperation, and Water Management, as well as Caribbean ministers from Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.
Philadelphia first
Monday opens with the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, greeting the couple at Independence Hall.
After a tour of the building and the Liberty Bell, they’ll sit down with business leaders for roundtable discussions on agriculture, biomedical science, and high tech.
The afternoon heads to Fishtown (a neighbourhood with visible Dutch architecture) before ending at the Philadelphia Eagles training facility. Bonus talking point: Curaçao is competing at the World Cup 2026, partly hosted at the Eagles’ Lincoln Financial Field.
Then D.C.
Following a networking event in the US capital, the King and Queen will dine with President Trump and stay overnight at the White House.
Plot twist? Newly sworn-in Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten joins the private dinner (and sleepover).
Let’s hope the food is crunchy enough to cover the awkward silence, given that Jetten has previously called Trump a “misogynist,” “convicted criminal,” and something of a dictator-whore.
Eet smakelijk! 😰
Finally, Miami
The Florida leg spans two days and leans into water resilience, healthcare innovation, and the Dutch Kingdom’s Caribbean ties.
At the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, the couple will tour a hurricane simulator and a coral lab breeding sturdier reef species.
More importantly, Miami functions as the key trade hub between the US and Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, so ministers from all three islands join for this leg of the trip.
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WHY??? “According to the Royal House, the visit will address maritime manufacturing, innovation, culture, technology, water, and healthcare. It’ll also include an overnight stay in the White House.” The Trump administration doesn’t give a flying f#*k about any of these issues. My advice, go see Disney World and return home to sanity.
Great
Ik ben benieuwd hoe het zal gaan, ik had gehoopt er zelf ook bij te kunnen zijn, lijkt me wel een leuke ervaring.