Queen Máxima looks elegant in autumn shades as she attends the Prix de Rome ceremony in Amsterdam

Queen Máxima looked elegant when she attended an award ceremony of the Prix de Rome in Amsterdam.

The royal, 52, looked festive on Tuesday in a checked skirt and burgundy top with long sleeves for the Visual Arts presentation at the Stedelijk Museum.

Maxima added even more glamor to her stylish ensemble by donning a suede beret and matching burgundy stilettos.

The mother of three completed her outfit with a designer leather handbag and diamond earrings.

Her blonde locks were pulled up in a chic bun and her glamorous makeup enhanced her flawless facial features.

The Prix de Rome is an incentive prize for talented visual artists from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The winning artist will be rewarded with a contribution of €40,000 (£34,900) and the opportunity to take part in a residency of their choice.

It comes after the royal sophistication that radiated last week during a visit to Dutch Design Week.

She dressed to impress and put on a chic blue suit for the outing at the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven.

Máxima, who appeared cheerful, chatted with interior designer Mariska Dietz before being given a tour of the venue.

During the design week, a nine-day event takes place in Eindhoven with exhibitions, studio visits, workshops, seminars and parties throughout the city.

The royal family has just returned home from a whirlwind working visit to Africa as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA).

The royal, 52, looked festive in a checked skirt and burgundy long-sleeved top for the Visual Arts presentation at the Stedelijk Museum on Tuesday

Maxima added even more glamor to her stylish ensemble by donning a suede burette and matching burgundy stilettos

The mother of three completed her outfit with a designer leather handbag and diamond earrings

For her outing, the mother of three completed her ensemble with a blue and white floral shirt and a stylish black cape coat.

She added glamor with statement silver earrings and black leather heeled boots.

And despite a nine-hour flight home yesterday, she showed no signs of jet lag as she got straight back to her domestic royal duties.

A day earlier, Maxima met with the Kenyan Minister of Finance Njuguna Ndungu at the Radisson hotel in Nairobi.

She appeared deep in conversation during a roundtable discussion with Open Finance and Financial Health together with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance.

The week before, Maxima visited Rabobank to participate in a discussion about Inclusive Green Finance in Nairobi.

Maxima looked at the work of artist Michael Tedja, who makes 2 works: a 60-part painting How to study the sea poetically and Vertical reality, in which 232 paintings come together in the form of a book

The Prix de Rome is an incentive prize for talented visual artists from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

She spent three days in East Africa in her role as the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development.

Before Argentina-born Máxima met her husband, King Willem Alexander, she pursued a successful career in the financial world.

While studying economics at the Pontifical Catholic University, she worked for Mercado Abierto Electrónico SA, an electronic securities and currency trading market.

She also combined her studies with her work in the sales department of Boston Securities SA in Buenos Aires, where she researched software for the financial markets.

After graduating, she joined HSBC in New York, where she rose to vice president of institutional sales for Latin America.

Her next move was to Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in New York, where she worked as vice president of the emerging markets division, before moving to Deutsche Bank in Brussels.

She is fluent in Spanish, her native language, English and Dutch and speaks French.

Thanks to her past career, Maxima was appointed UN Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development in 2009 by former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Since June 2011, she has also been Honorary Patron of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), where she works to advance the G20’s work on inclusive finance.