Today the whole nation celebrated Koninginnedag, nicely translated as Queen’s Day. Started as a kind of honourable tour to celebrate the queen’s birthdayat Soestdijk Palace during the reign of the former Queen Juliana. Nowadays, under Queen Beatrix, the Royal Family visits some cities on Queen’s Day. Although it’s not her birthday (this is January 31st) it’s still in honour of Queen Juliana, that the Royal Family decided to keep this day as the day to celebrate.

But there is more. It’s an official national holiday. People go to Vrijmarkten. On these markets, people can try to get rid of their old stuff. A kind of second hand market.
In Amsterdam and Utrecht you can find the biggest ones.

Koninginnedag isn’t just a Dutch festival, in my Simstown River’s Hill people celebrated this day too. People went to the Oranjeplein to meet each other, to dance and to play games.

Check River’s Hill Dagblad (in Dutch, but there will be a special picturepage on the blog) to see how happy everybody was on their own Sims Queen’s Day.