Queen Beatrix and the rest of the royal family will visit Rhenen and Veendendaal in the province of Utrecht during the 2012 Queen’s Day celebrations.

This year, the queen was in Limburg and the year before in Zeeland.
Koninginnedag, April 30, was the birthday of Beatrix’s mother, Juliana. When Beatrix succeeded to the throne in 1980, she decided to keep the celebrations on the same day. She also scrapped the formal file-past at Soestdijk palace and introduced ‘meet and greet’ visits instead.