On November 28, 2022, Queen Maxima of The Netherlands presented the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Prize 2022 to Anne Frank House (Anne Frank Stichting) at the STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam. Every year, the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund (Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) rewards persons or organizations that have made great contributions in fields of culture, nature or science in the Netherlands.
The Prince Bernhard Culture Fund awarded the prize to the Anne Frank House for its decades-long efforts to draw attention to the life story and ideas of Anne Frank in a creative and inspiring way. The Anne Frank House is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank.
OMG! That hair.
ReplyDeleteThe lady in white boots has scraggly hair too.
DeleteHave you never seen it before? Why the shock?
DeleteI find that her hair is fine. I think that it got a little windswept while she was walking. Judy
DeleteHer hair is alright. most women's hair changes texture as they get older. And the fact that she has been bleaching it blonde most of her life makes it look thin/finer
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The dress is possibly a bit snug across the bust, but it’s a great length and suits her very well. I like the interesting brooch. For once she has not overdone the accessories! (V.M.)
ReplyDeleteI agree !
DeleteThe outfit is fine. She would have looked great with her hair up. css
ReplyDeleteLove the dress, it is a terrific length and suits her beautifully. The brooch is interesting, I'd love to see a close up of it. Not sure what earrings she is wearing, I think more sedate. She is very engaging and happy, lovely to see.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Smart and relatively understated and a cloak rather than a coat with its sleeves dangling 👍
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I agree with you entirely, Ava.
DeleteI love her shoes, bag and gloves too.
Absolutely fascinating.
Her dress is fine but ill fitting, her stockings are too shiny, and her hair a mess again. But she's smiling
ReplyDelete"That hair" is simply thin hair. Why not accept that she does it her way? I for my part would not want to applaud to extensions and I find it very authentic that she is not being coiffed to perfection every single day - then she is almost every day out and about doing her manifold tasks. - This style of dress suits her really excellently, with and without the cape. Nicely accessorized, very well put together. (-Ann.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for standing up for Maxima! I totally agree about the unnecessary criticism about her hair. Maxima wears her hair like every normal business woman and not like a fashion influencer. Maybe it is not important to her. So what! Maybe she doesn't like to spend an hour or so being coiffed to perfection every morning instead of having breakfast with her family. Perhaps all the hairdressing is stress for her thin hair. So please be all a bit more tolerant. I guess no one of us has always the best hairday.
DeletePulling the hair back in a low pony tail or bun is not stress on the hair, its consideration for the people who are coming to see her, and for her to look presentable as a Queen.
DeleteThe dress is a good classic ladies dress with potency.
ReplyDeleteM wears it with the right accessories, the black lacquered shoes and bag and normal stockings.
One size wider would make it better, but a positive from me today,
Mabel
Nice dress, horrible hair.
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Lovely outfit. Maxima looks very good here. The dress is slightly on the snug side but it shows off a few curves without offense. The cape makes her look regal.
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Quelle allure dans cette robe que j'aime bien voir sans ce manteau que je trouve quand même un peu trop long ; belle broche mais j'aimerais la voir de plus près ?!
ReplyDeleteShe looks nice but yes does look a little snug in places km
ReplyDeleteI like her dress , the grey accessories would look much better.
ReplyDeleteAva
I like the dress although a little less tight would look better. Those gloves might work for changing a tire but not for an elegant dress. Suzie Q
ReplyDeleteDear Angelina, Very well said. Actually, this lack of inner and outer vanity is what makes Maxima so interesting. Her hair is obviously very difficult to manage so she has probably given up and prefers to devote her time to more important matters. A pony tail would be a good solution.
ReplyDelete🌞 Virginia
Love the dress, the cut, length and draping is very flattering. The boat neck suits her. I have something similar and love it, because it is so easy to wear, formal with a feminine touch, put together without overdoing it. As said before it is a bit tight on the bust - as it is often with Maxima. Better underwear does wonders in this case. I don't know why but she seems to prefer these seamless bandeau bras that are comfy but instead of lifting and shaping they flatten and broaden the chest. With the result that the upper part doesn't fit right. The darts sit on the wrong place. If you buy off the rack and are between two sizes you have two choices. Shape your body with a good underdress so you can slip into the smaller size or buy the bigger size and get it altered.
ReplyDeleteAnd for the hair. Goodness, she is not the first and only woman with thin hair. But why she accentuates the problem with these long feathery ends, I don't know. A kinlength bob would look much better in my eyes. Cameron Diaz as an example has similar hair and has had all kind of different hairstyles over the years. The bob worked best for her. In my opinion.
1) Cameron Diaz with long hair and feathery ends similar to Maxima
https://www.frisuren-magazin.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Cameron-Diaz-Frisuren-Langhaarfrisur-Blond-Glatt-scaled.jpg
2) Cameron Diaz with kinlength bob
https://www.frisuren-magazin.de/frisuren-cameron-diaz/
What do you think?
At this point, the constant and repeated comments about Maxima's hair are beyond tiresome. We all know what her hair looks like. Repeatedly pointing it out makes no sense. It is weak and damaged. It could be due to age or health as much as any other reason. Taking issue with wearing extensions is nonsense. It is no different than wearing a wig or hairpiece, which women have done for centuries - and some men as well. If she is comfortable, who are we to complain? At least she has a modern hair style, unlike her mother-in-law, who has had the same style since before she got married.
ReplyDelete@those who are tired of the repeating complaints about Maximas hair, well, if you look at it this way, it makes no sense to comment on anything, because the royals ladies are all repeating themselves, same hairstyles, good or bad, be it Victoria or Catherine or Mathilde, Beatrix, Camilla, just anybody, not to forget about Anne :-)) who is probably the most consistent. Same for the clothes. Each of the royal ladies has found her style and sticks to it. The only two who vary from time to time with their hairstyle or colour are Sofia and Charlene. It has become kind of boring and lacks inspiration, at least for me. But who knows maybe this is just a reflection of the time we live in. But I do admit sometimes I miss the crazy times when the York sisters would surprise us with the weirdest hats and fascinators and gave us food to talk about for days :)))
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you about your opinion on the complaints about Maxima's hair. The hair may look consistently the same in condition unless she has it professionally styled, but her clothes change. That negates your argument that there is no sense on commenting on anything on anything. I agree some are in the same style clothes as well, so there really is nothing to say. It just doesn't apply to Maxima, in my view. We never know what she is going to surprise us with.
DeleteMessy hair as usual !!!
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