The Netherlands is turning orange to celebrate King Willem-Alexander's birthday

Orange-clad Dutch crowds celebrate king's birthday

The people of the Netherlands have celebrated their king's 58th birthday with street parties decked out in the colour orange.

Orange-clad crowds cram into to Dutch cities to celebrate King Willem-Alexander's birthday

Across the Netherlands, people donned orange clothes - from tuxedos to feather boas - and boats packed with revelers clogged Amsterdam's canals to celebrate their king's birthday Saturday.

Orange-clad crowds cram into Dutch cities to celebrate king's birthday

Across the Netherlands, people have donned orange clothes to celebrate their king’s birthday. Boats packed with revelers clogged Amsterdam’s canals on Saturday for King's Day.

King’s Day: flea markets and fun

Kings Day is well underway, the Netherlands and its people are painted orange and Amsterdam’s city streets are covered in their traditional, quirky flea markets. They are celebrating the birthday of their King, Willem-Alexander, although his official birthday is on April 27, the event is always celebrated on a Saturday if April 27 is a Sunday, as in 2025. King’s Day or Koningsdag… Source

Dutch community on the Costa gets ready to raise a glass to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

A large-scale Koningsdag party will be held in La Carihuela on Saturday with live music, a street market and traditional cuisine

The vrijmarkt is a way to go out into the street, meet, exchange toys, clothes, second hand books, and teach your children what a free market is. This market is not like the others, it has a different meaning. In the Netherlands, instead of celebrating the birthday of the queen, or of the king in each case, with parades and various faustos, they do so in a much more fun and original way. It was Queen Beatriz who decided that it was not the peopl…