Netherlands Queen To Abdicate April 30

Sources: Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Amsterdam) and Netherlands bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Queen of the Netherlands, Queen Beatrix, has announced that she would abdicate on April 30, 2013, the date of the Dutch annual public holiday Konninginnedag celebrating her mother's birthday, in favor of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand who will be crowned King on the same day. [full story]