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 Click here for more photos at Zimbio.com Spain’s Infanta Cristina represented her country during the opening of the exhibit, “The Invention of Glory: King Alfonso V and Tapestries Pastrana”, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The tapestries, which measure 10 meters wide and 4 meters high, depict the conquest of the Moroccan cities of Tangiers and Arzila.
Made from between 1475 to 1480, the artwork was owned by Mendoza family until the 17th century.
It is now being shown around the United States and will soon come to Guadalajara, Mexico.
Infanta Cristina, her husband and their four children, moved to the United States two years ago because of Inaki Urdangarin’s job. They now live outside of Washington, D.C.
Source: Hoy Mujer
At the Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn Saturday, Queen Beatrix and her daughter-in-law, Princess Maxima, received a tour of a new exhibit showcasing Maxima’s decade in the Netherlands.
 Click here to see more of the exhibit Its been 10 years since it was announced that she will marry the heir to the Dutch throne, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, and since then, the Argentinian Maxima has become one of the most popular members of the royal family. This exhibit honors the Princess’ place in Dutch society.
The exhibit features some of Maxima’s most famous attire – the Valentino wedding gown she wore to her 2002 wedding to Willem-Alexander, her ensemble worn to the baptism of eldest daughter, Princess Catharina Amalia, as well as several other articles of clothing. Photographs are shown alongside the outfits, which are encased in glass.
Besides celebrating 10 years in her adopted country, Princess Maxima has another milestone coming up. Later this month, she turns 40 years old. It is expected the Dutch royals will throw a major bash that will include royalty from around Europe.
“Princess Maxima, 10 Years in the Netherlands” officially opens Sunday and will run until September 4th 2011.
Source: Paleis Het Loo
 Click here for more pics of the event Despite some royal wedding happening this Friday  , there are other events happening the world of royalty. For example, Belgium’s Princess Astrid paid a visit to a photo exhibit of photographer Lieve Blancquaert in Ghent.
2011 marks Blancquaert’s 25 years of photographing, and her work was on display at the Bank van de Arbeid – The Bank of Labour.
All types of photos – from color to black and white, portraits, photojournalism and some personal polaroids – are on display.
This exhibition will run until May 6th.
Source: Een.be
King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain are currently in St. Petersburg, Russia to inaugurate the Spain-Russia Dual Year, which is dedicated to cement the economic and cultural ties between the two nations.
 AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service They, along with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva, spent most of Friday at the Hermitage Museum to exchange art works at the landmark museum to begin the cultural links.
“Russia and Spain are two countries that are essential for understanding European culture, history and identity,” said King Juan Carlos at the ceremony in the Throne Room of the Hermitage Museum, formerly the Winter Palace of the czars.
“Both countries not only wish to give renewed impetus to the great tide of understanding and friendship that has always linked our peoples, but to make clear our shared goal of expanding and deepening bilateral relations,” the king also said at the inauguration of “The Prado in the Hermitage” exhibition.
The exhibit will showcase 66 works of art from Spain’s Prado Museum by such creators as Velazquez, Goya, El Greco, Titian and Rubens.
President Medvedev, who intends to make his second visit to Spain in November, said that the Dual Year program, with more than 350 commercial, cultural and scientific activities, “opens new possibilities of contact between peoples.”
 REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin Queen Sofia and First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva toured the rest of the Hermitage to get a look at Russian fine art, plus the apartment where Alexander Pushkin lived.
This coming November will see 170 art pieces from the Hermitage come to the Prado as part of the cultural exchange. It will have work by Rubens and Watteaau as well as Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin and Matisse.
Earlier on Friday, the Spanish King and the Russian President held a business forum in which they discussed the potential for more economic ties in the field of technological modernization and innovation. Juan Carlos emphasized that Spanish business leaders “are wholeheartedly turning to Russia.”
“Russia and Spain each has one foot in Europe and the other in the world, and as global players they have an enormous potential for cooperation,” said Antonio Brufau, CEO of Spanish energy giant Repsol YPF.
Source: EFE, AFP
On Thursday, Spain’s Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia inaugurated the 30th annual International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid. They were accompanied by the Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, and the director of the show, Carlos Urroz. This was the third consecutive year the couple opened this event.
 Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images The future King and Queen were given a nearly two hour tour of the art fair, which features 3,000 art pieces by artists from 21 countries, with Russia is the guest country this year.
Felipe and Letizia were given a chance to draw with chalk on a blackboard, they played works that can be touched, spoke on live radio and, especially, looked at the new trends in contemporary art.
The Prince was particularly interested in the exhibit by Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo, called “Christmas trees”, consisting of a Christmas tree lying on the ground.
His wife’s favorite artwork was “Kusha”, which depicts a woman in minidress, stockings, garter belt and “peep toes” holding a cake in her hands. The work belongs to the series ‘Pin-up girls’, for which the author has photographed Russian women immigrants in the traditional poses of the girls happy postwar American calendar. According to Europa Press, Letizia said: “With those heels in the kitchen, it would be hard.”
After the tour, Prince Felipe gave a brief comment to a journalist, saying the media should continue to give attention to the fair.
Besides the exhibition, prominent professionals, intellectuals, artists, philosophers and foundations will participate in round tables and meetings interesting during the fair’s tenure.
Sources: ¡Hola!, ABC.es
 Terra Noticias The second child of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia was in St. Petersburg, Florida Tuesday to open the Dali Museum, the largest collection of the Spanish artist outside of Spain.
Infanta Cristina and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, represented their country for the inauguration as they have been since moving to the United States nearly two years ago.
Museum director Hank Hine, noted that, it was an honor to have a member of the Spanish royal family present because they “has always displayed tremendous leadership in the Spanish culture.”
The museum contains 96 oil paintings, hundreds of acrylics, watercolors and about 2,000 objects related to the life of Salvador Dali. Its architecture reflects the surreal and ambiguous forms that characterize the work of the late Catalan artist. It cost $36 million to build.
Monday saw the gala celebrating the opening of the museum. Tuesday, at 11:11am, Infanta Cristina cut the ribbon to officially open it.
Source: EFE
 Maghreb Arabe Presse Morocco’s Princess Lalla Salma was in Marrakech on Friday to open the “Yves Saint Laurent and Morocco” exhibition at the Museum of the Majorelle Garden. The fashion on display show the late French couturier’s love of the North African country.
During the opening, Lalla Salma toured the 44 creations, documents, pictures and sketches in the first room. Some of the outfits shown are Saint Laurent’s interpretation of the Moroccan caftan and sarouels, which are Moroccan style pants.
In the second room is where the visitor goes outside the Majorelle Garden to see the nature which inspired Saint Laurent.
The third room, called “Ideal Africa” has timeless items made of surprising substances mainly wooden beads, mica and raffia.
This exhibit will eventually move to Casablanca, where it would be open to the public until March 18th.
Source: Maghreb Arabe Presse
 Heiko Junge / Scanpix It was a family outing for Norway’s Crown Princely family Thursday as Haakon and Mette-Marit took their two children to see the the opening of the Nansen exhibit for kids at the Nobel Prize Center in Oslo. According to Prince Sverre Magnus, age 4, they all had a lot of fun.
The first exhibit everyone saw was one about what it is like being a refugee these days. The display was set up in an interactive way that allows visitors to touch screens for each story to hear. Sverre Magnus, and big sister Princess Ingrid Alexandra, 6, took the opportunity to touch as many screens as possible.
The next part of the exhibit was to play a game which collects money, food and medicine for refugees. The two royal children enjoyed that one, and Sverre Magnus called it, “grand”.
As the family left the center, they all posed next to a life-size photo cut out of Fridtjof Nansen, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for helping refugees.
Source: Side2
On Monday, the King of Morocco presided over the opening of the Third Horse Fair in El Jadida. He was accompanied by his brother, Prince Moulay Rashid, and cousin Prince Moulay Ismail.
 Maghreb Arabe Presse The fair attracts dozens of participants from the Middle East and Europe, as well as nearly 700 horses. The event aims to both celebrate Moroccan equestrianism and set up jobs related to it.
Before the opening ceremony, the King and the two Princes were given a tour of the fair. They met with the Moroccan Fantasia (Tbourida) and a regiment of the cavalry of the French Republican Guard, which are honored guests this year.
The royals also were briefed on a new exhibition park worth 390 million dirhams, or $48 million, that is being built nearby. The park is expected to hold hundreds of horses, plus administrative offices, exhibition spaces and a children’s park.
As for the fair, it will run until Sunday, October 24th. About 250,000 are expected to come it, and see horse jumping shows, Tbourida shows and various exhibits.
Source: Maghreb Arabe Presse
 Cour Grand Ducale On Thursday, Luxembourg’s former monarch, Grand Duke Jean, toured an exhibit dedicated to his late mother, Charlotte. Jean seemed to be in high spirits as he looked at the photographs, documents and relics of the late Grand Duchess.
The exhibition is a traveling one, and has been moving around Luxembourg since August 1st.
Grand Duchess Charlotte reigned over Luxembourg from 1919 to 1964. She succeeded her sister Marie-Adelaide, and was succeeded by Grand Duke Jean after she abdicated. Charlotte died in 1985 from cancer.
As for Grand Duke Jean, he also abdicated the throne in 2000 in favor of his son, Grand Duke Henri, the current head of state.
Sources: Wort.lu, Wikipedia
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