The Dutch public stood and applauded respectfully yesterday as they watched 40 hearses carrying the coffins of those who died in the doomed Malaysia Airlines MH17 pass by.

Bodies of the dead from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane have arrived in Holland to be received by a nation in mourning.

Spain’s King Juan Carlos plans to abdicate and pave the way for his son, Crown Prince Felipe, to become the country’s next king, the nation’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy said today.

A Russian opposition group says its activists threw tomatoes at Dutch King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Maxima, as they arrived for a concert in Moscow.

King Willem-Alexander has become the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century after his mother Beatrix abdicated to end a 33-year reign.

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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announced today that she will abdicate on April 30 after 33 years as head of state.

An unemployed recluse who attempted to slam his car into an open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix was acting alone and targeting the Dutch royal family, police said today.

The driver who tried to ram the Dutch royal family’s coach and ended up killing six bystanders had recently been fired and was about to lose his home, it emerged today.

Princess Amalia, second in line to the Dutch throne, was baptised today in the presence of Queen Beatrix and her maternal grandfather from Argentina, who was permitted to attend a royal function for the first time.

Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has married an Argentine economist.