The Dutch queen Maxima started her visit to Vienna in an outfit completely in red. In the evening, Máxima showed up in a long white dress.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima are on a state visit to Austria. They were received in the Vienna Hofburg on Monday by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and his wife Doris Schmidauer.
The royal couple then went to the so-called Shoah Wall of Names, where they laid wreaths to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. Afterwards, both of them signed the city’s golden book.
From red to white
For the start of her visit to Vienna, Queen Máxima chose a look completely in red. She combined a red dress with a cape with a matching hat, a clutch bag, gloves and high heels. Her husband, on the other hand, came in a plain dark suit.
For the state banquet in the evening they changed again. The 51-year-old opted for the color white this time. In a floor-length one-shoulder robe with a train, she wowed in the evening at Belvedere Palace. She wore a tiara and pearl earrings. Her husband, four years her senior, came in a black tuxedo.
The Dutch royal couple still have a tight program ahead of them in Vienna. On Tuesday, Willem-Alexander and Máxima want to visit an integration project and meet with refugees from Ukraine. The royal family says they have housed 32 Ukrainian refugees in one of their palaces. In the evening, a concert by the Dutch Chamber Choir is on the program in the Konzerthaus.
On the third and final day of their state visit, the king and queen plan to travel to Graz by train. There they find out about the progress made in the manufacture of environmentally friendly batteries from an automotive supplier group. The royal couple then met the communist mayor Elke Kahr in the city hall.
