- Koninkrijksdag
Koninkrijksdag or Kingdom day is a
national holiday in theNetherlands , theNetherlands Antilles , andAruba on15 December , commemorating the signing of theCharter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands . This charter was signed by Queen Juliana on15 december 1954 .The charter deals with the relation between The Netherlands and the overseas territories, the
Netherlands Antilles ,Netherlands New Guinea andSuriname and (since 1986) alsoAruba . Presently Suriname and Nieuw-Guinea are no longer part of theKingdom of the Netherlands , but the charter is still valid for the other territories.
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