More than 3,300 people have received honours in the annual ‘lintjesregen’ to mark king Willem-Alexander’s birthday on Saturday. Among those recognised by the monarch are television presenter Yvon Jaspers, who fronts popular reality soap Boer zoekt Vrouw. Private investor and zoo owner Marcel Boekhoorn is also honoured for his wide ranging charity work. The highest honour award this year, that of Commander in the Order of Oranje-Nassau, went to Japanese national Kenzo Hiroki, a former civil... Read this story
