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Queen Máxima back in beloved New York after 1.5 years

With reading glasses around her neck and a splint around her hand, Queen Máxima handed over the annual report to Secretary-General António Guterre on Thursday. She also wore an old acquaintance: the Valentino dress she also wore when she handed the annual report to Guterre in 2019.

It’s allowed again

For about ten years now, Queen Máxima has exchanged her hat and dress for a more comfi outfit after Prinsjesdag, before flying to New York. The General Meetings are held there every autumn. Last year the ‘handover’ of the annual report took place digitally, this time it was allowed again physically.

There appears to be a small advantage for the Queen’s file from the pandemic, the Royal House writes on Instagram. In several countries, the corona crisis has accelerated the development of digital financial services.

The annual report

Every year, Máxima and her team prepare a report for the Secretary-General containing data, explanations and stories about inclusive finance. Before the pandemic, she traveled annually to various countries in poverty to meet with leaders and the population. This year that was not possible and all conversations had to be conducted digitally. Máxima’s last UN trip was to Pakistan in November 2019.

Maxima Pakistan

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Flamencolessen

Visits to New York are like coming home to Queen Máxima. She lived in New York for five years from the age of twenty-four. First in a small Manhattan apartment, later in the heart of Soho, less than a five-minute walk from Central Park.

Marcia Luyten writes in her biography Máxima Zorreguieta, Motherland that our Queen dreamed of living in New York from an early age. She eventually worked there in the late 1990s as vice president of sales in the banking world. In the weekends she went shopping and skating, in the evenings she took flamenco lessons, writes Luyten. Most likely there was little time for such activities in Queen Máxima’s busy schedule of the past week.

Maxima New York

Meghan and Harry

Prince Harry and Meghan are also in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday they visited the 9/11 Memorial. Meghan told those in attendance that it felt good to be back in town. Harry managed to attract some extra attention with his tablet sleeve, which has ‘Archie’s Papa’ printed on it.

On Saturday, Prince Harry and Meghan will speak about vaccination equality at the Global Citizen Live Event.

Meghan Harry

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