Willem-Alexander and Máxima of the Netherlands
Appearance with cooking apron and rolling pin
King Willem-Alexander and Máxima of the Netherlands in the Brotfabrik event center in Vienna.
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Willem-Alexander and Máxima visited an event center on Tuesday. He swung the rolling pin, she showed her talent for baking.
King Willem-Alexander (55) and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (51) swung the rolling pin on the second day of their state visit to Austria. “The royal couple visited the cultural center Brotfabrik, where projects promoting social integration were discussed. They also helped to prepare dishes,” it says on the Instagram page of the royal couple to two photos from the visit on Tuesday morning in the district of Favoriten in Vienna.
On site, the two tied their aprons. And above all Máxima, who wore a gray lace dress with a matching hat, “cut a fine figure as the royal kitchen fairy and lent a hand in preparing the dishes”, as summarized by the newspaper “Krone”..
In addition to the small “flatbreads with oat bran” kneaded and shaped by the queen, there was also a Turkish “Menemen egg dish with onions, tomatoes and peppers” and “falafel filled with tomato and onion mixture and a tahini sauce with various herbs and vegetables”. Curd yoghurt cream with various berries was served as dessert.
So it went on for the Oranje Royals
After visiting the cultural center, which has also served lunch for refugees from the war region since the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the royal couple continued on to the National Library. There the ceremonial hall was visited.
In the afternoon there is a meeting with the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer (49, ÖVP) and in the evening a concert by the Dutch Chamber Choir in the Konzerthaus.
At the end of the state visit, the Oranje Royals will travel by train to Graz in Styria on Wednesday.