Visit King Willem-Alexander (2024)
King Willem-Alexander paid a working visit to the Fryske Akademy on 16 October 2024.
In the presence of Commissioner of the King Arno Brok and Provincial Deputy Eke Folkerts, the king held talks with managing-director Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm and five members of our scientific staff. Dr Anne Merkuur (linguist), Dr Han Nijdam (historian), Dr Jelske Dykstra (Mercator project manager), Dr Hindrik Sijens (lexicographer) and PhD student Martijn Kingma told the king about their research in the field of frisistics.
Photographer Marieke Balk made this photo reportage, before and behind the scenes.
