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 Click here to view more images Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan was an honoree at Thursday’s 2011 UNICEF Ball held in Los Angeles. She took home the Woman of Compassion award, something she was pleased to win.
“Humbled by UNICEF’s Woman of Compassion tribute today esp as King Hussein my model of compass leadership&UNICEF is ultimate compass org,” the Queen wrote on Twitter.
Noor was among many Hollywood celebrities that night including Nicole Ritchie, Brooklyn Decker, Rose McGowan, Matthew Morrison, Jenna Elfman and Jayma Mays.
Sources: Twitter, Gossip Center
The Queen of Jordan gave out her annual Excellence in Education today at the Applied Science Private University in Amman. Since 2005, Queen Rania has been awarding her country’s teachers, and in 2009, began awarding principals as way to improve education in the Hashemite Kingdom.
 Click here to see more photos This year, 25 teachers and 7 principals received their Excellence in Education awards.
“Change for us is an opportunity,” Her Majesty told those at the university’s the conference center. “An opportunity to learn from the past, and set modern plans for our future.”
“Teach them responsibility,” The Queen told the teachers and principals. “Teach them how to transform their love for Jordan into constructive work, so Jordan and they can grow together.”
The ceremony for this award included a screening of a couple of documentaries which showcased what is expected from a Jordanian educator.
The Teacher’s award began in 2005, and the Principal’s award is biannual. This year, nearly 2,000 applicants for teachers and 282 applicants for principals came in from all over Jordan.
Source: Petra
 View more photos here at Daylife.com Princess Madeleine of Sweden wore a lovely red gown for the American Scandinavian Society’s 2011 Yule ball at the Metropolitan Club Friday.
Her Royal Highness was all smiles as she posed for cameras before entering the club. Clearly, this has been a good year for her. Her charity work keeps developing as well as her relationship with New York financier Chris O’Neil.
Madeleine had more reasons to smile at the Yule Ball. She received a humanitarian award for her work with World Childhood Foundation, which was started in 1999 by her mother, Queen Silvia.
Source: Svensk Damtidning
The annual Queen Sonja School Award was given out Friday, and this year’s recipient was the Malakoff High School in the Oslo neighborhood of Moss. It was the first time a high school received the honor.
 Click here to see image gallery The institution won because it “developed a comprehensive training and support program for a diverse group of young people” and “[t]he school places great emphasis on the individual youth are protected from their premises … The effort to provide young people with a diverse multicultural background good future, continues throughout the school’s work program.”
Another reason why Malakoff won could be because 11 of its students were present during the Utøya massacre back in late July. One student died while two others were injured.
At the same time, Malakoff is located near the government buildings which were bombed on July 22nd. One student lost his mother then.
During the ceremony, Her Majesty Queen Sonja met with several of the students. She had this to say about her meeting: “It is an unimaginable tragedy that has been hard on us all. It seems that Malakoff has been very good to help and follow up on it students who are affected here. The students told me that they were satisfied with the way they have been taken care of.”
She went on to say, “It’s a terrible situation to be in, but all we have to continue in life. You have to build brick by brick, trying to do this in the best possible way.”
“It is obviously difficult for the individual, but I believe that the young people I met here today will do it,” said the Queen.
Sonja was given a tour of the high school, which had her see its library, technical and medical classes, and basic classrooms.
Source: NRK, Kongehuset
 Click here for more images The Netherlands’ Princess Maxima was on hand to give this year’s Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Prize 2011 at the Muziekgebouw
in Amsterdam Monday. This year’s winner was famed Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn.
The ceremony had Coldplay’s Chris Martin and U2 frontman Bono performing for their friend, who has frequently photographed and even directed some of U2′s music videos. Corbijn has also photographed David Bowie, Tom Waits and Miles Davis. In addition, he has directed two movies: Control (2007) and The American (2010).
The reason why Corbijn won this award was because the Prize saw him as “an important, image makers and image-maker of the popular culture of his generation”.
The Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Prize promote culture in the Netherlands and gives €75,000 to its annual winners.
Sources: RTL, ANP
Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg was on hand to give out the fourth annual Edward Steichen award Thursday. The ceremony took place at the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, or MUDAM as it is known.
 Click here for original photo This year’s recipient of the award went to 32 year old Polish born artist Maria Loboda, who divides her time between London and Berlin.
Another winner took home a new addition of the Edward Steichen award, called the Resident Edward Steichen, Luxembourg, New York City. It went to Claudia Passeri, who spends her time in Luxembourg and Perugia.
The Edward Steichen award has been given out every two years since 2005 to emerging talent between the ages of 25-35 in the field of contemporary art. The winner is invited to spend six months at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City.
As for the new award, that is given to someone younger than 35 years old, who also gets to spend time at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, but only for three months instead.
Sources: Wort, Le Quotidien
Morocco’s Princess Lalla Salma was in Rabat Tuesday to preside over a ceremony for the country’s National Day Against Cancer.
 Click here for learn more and see more photos An advocate for fighting cancer, the Princess gave out awards in recognition to those who seek to find cures for the disease. For this year, Dr. Hussein Abdel-Razzak Gezairy, Director of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean, won the international award.
Other recipients included Sister Thérèse Garnier for her 20 years working for cancer patients. She works at an oncology center in Casablanca. Also taking home an award was Lahcen Houjir for his work in training nurses at the national oncology institute in Rabat, where he is the head of the nursing care department.
Also on Tuesday, Princess Lalla Salma was present for the signing of agreements between her association and GlaxoSmithkline in order to provide better access to medicine for those who are not wealthy enough to get them.
Another agreement had the association team up with the World Alliance Against Cancer with cancer treatment projects in Francophone nations in Africa.
Source: Maghreb Arabe Presse
On Tuesday, Belgium’s Princess Mathilde stopped by two separate organizations which are connected to a national prize named after her. Both places were related to needy mothers and child care.
 Click here to see gallery of Peruwelz visit The first, La maison de la Parentalité, in Péruwelz, is a a pilot project focusing on early childhood education. The maison, set up three years ago, encourages the process of co-education among parents of children, newborn up to the age of three.
“Our goal is to help the woman not to feel alone in raising her child,” said social worker Bruno Humbeek.”We’re not going to just raise them and make them grow together, but we participate in their [the children] development.”
The Princess received a tour of the maison and chatted with the mothers who use the facility.
Next was De Bakermat in Leuven. This one helps underprivileged mothers and their young. At one point, Mathilde sat on the floor with the mothers and their babies to talk to them.
Source: L’Avenir, Nieuwsblad, RTBF
The 29th annual Princess Grace Awards were given out in New York Tuesday at Cipriani 42nd Street.
 Click here to see more photos of the event Monaco’s Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene were on hand to give out the awards, which honors emerging artists in theater, dance and film, plus two other lifetime achievement awards.
The recipients of those last two awards are Hollywood legend Julie Andrews, who earned the Prince Rainier III award, and the Princess Grace Statue Award went to film director Jon M. Chu.
Albert and Charlene walked the red carpet along with many other celebrities in attendance. They included models Selita Ebanks and Petra Nemcova, actress Anne Hathaway, and reality star Olivia Palermo.
Inside, there was a dinner, the awards ceremony and a dance afterward. There was also a chance to see the line of jewelry from the luxury brand Montblanc, which created the jewelry with the late Princess Grace as the inspiration.
The Princess Grace Awards funds scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships to assist artists to begin their careers. Since 1982, about 600 artists have benefited from the Awards and more than $8.5 million has been distributed.
To learn more about the awards, click here
Sources: Visit Monaco, Gather.com
 Check out more photos at MSN Starlounge! This past Wednesday saw Princess Marie of Denmark hand out the Prix Littéraire des Ambassadeurs at the French Embassy in Copenhagen. The award focuses on the country’s writers who also write in French.
This year’s recipient was Danish writer Klaus Rifbjerg, who has written over 170 books, novels and essays.
Marie has been patron of the prize since 2009, after taking over from her father in law, Henrik the Prince Consort. Sounds fitting, since the Princess is French born just like Prince Henrik.
Source: Billed Bladet, Wikipedia
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