Dutch royals edited Wikipedia entry on themselves

[kaffir]

Clever. . . . .I can't believe they wouldnt know all the wiki stuff is traceable!

[Marengo]

Apparently when they changed the wikipedia page at Huis ten Bosch palace, HM The Queen was not at home but in hospital for her knee surgery.

[Marengo]

Here another cartoon I found of the wikipedia incident.

[Marengo]

From expatica:

Mabel regrets Wikipedia changes

13 September 2007
AMSTERDAM - Princess Mabel regrets her changes to the entry on her in Wikipedia, but does think she had the right to alter the entry, the Volkskrant reports.
Mabel said this in a conversation with Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales, who talks about the conversation in an interview on Wikipedia. Wales recently met Mabel in China.

Read the entire article here.

[Marengo]

And

here

we see the real Princess Mabel dancing behind the boss of wikipedia, Jimbo Wales. As the lady says in the end, this is going on youtube right now.

[Maxie]

Originally Posted by Marengo

And

we see the real Princess Mabel dancing behind the boss of wikipedia, Jimbo Wales. As the lady says in the end, this is going on youtube right now.

She is so weird, really.

One moment she changes her wiki entry, the other she's dancing behind wiki's boss. How does she do that?

[Marengo]

And after that the wiki boss was interviewed by a news paper and said that Mabel was realy sorry for the uproar this all caused. Sigh.

He replied something about Mabel to RTL boulevard and send a cc to Mabel, so now the programme has Mabels e-mail adress.

[Regina]

I must say I found the video itself quite funny and amusing.
Mabel seems nice and very intelligentto me but pretty weird too.
Her husband doesn't seem very friendly, she looks nicer than him. His facial expression is a bit obscure. I am not surprised about them changing the website.

[acdc1]

Sorry, but the video was really, really weird. I know they were most likely just playing around, but still, that's odd behavior for a grown woman her age.

I also don't like this WikiScanner, or whatever they call it. Friso and Mabel had just as much right to edit the article as everone else, and I know they didn't think anyone would find out about it. I personally see it as an invasion of privacy, for them and anyone else.

[carlota]

after all the wikipedia dilemma, now there's a video of mabel dancing with jimmy wales (owner of wikipedia)...

YouTube - Mabel dances for Jimmy

(hope this wasn't posted before!)

[chibiinu]

what was the false information that the princess provided to the prime minister?

[Helena]

She said she didn't know mobster Klaas Bruinsma while she actually had an affair with him.

[sgl]

I know that this is an old thread, but I am just reading it for the first time. It is hilarious! Mabel seems very strange, and in need of some good p.r. Anyone who would wear that bow-train is definitely strange.

[Marengo]

Well, she doesn't need good PR I suppose, her husband isn't in line of succession any more. So I suppose they will can lead a rather private life in London and continue to persue their professional carreers (which is most impressive in Mabels case). She will never become an active member of the RF like Princess Margriet for example, but she will just pop up for family events, like Princess Christina.

[sgl]

I know that they not in the line of succession, but I would think that the family must be frustrated with her behavior at times. They are still part of the family, and are associated with the crown. I guess that every family has strange relatives.

[Marengo]

I actually think the family is more angry with the press for portraying Mabel in a certain way than with Mabel herself. Especially the Queen is said to be rather fond of Mabel. The family usually has the attitude of annoyance with the press, usually complaining about the pres being intruisive and all that and making hypes out of nothing.

[Empress]

Well, they're not too far off in that assesment in my eyes. I think that we have way too much information about private lives. Granted, taxes pay for a portion of their lifestyles, but I don't think that gives us the right to poke our noses into every single aspect of their lives.

[lucien]

Originally Posted by Empress

Well, they're not too far off in that assesment in my eyes. I think that we have way too much information about private lives. Granted, taxes pay for a portion of their lifestyles, but I don't think that gives us the right to poke our noses into every single aspect of their lives.

Oh,that tax bit?As was posted last week the annual turnover/spin-off due to our Monarchy is estimated to be between 4 to 5 billion Euro's.
So "that tax bit"is absolutely peanuts.Well,wouldn't you think?

And Mabel.She was portrayed the way we think we can discus,or better "they"/men think they can discuss her,by that obnoxious PI Peter R.de Vries.Seeing the face of that man,not to mention having to listen to that voice!!!!,makes that I don't believe all that much what a alcoholic former crook in Urugay had to say about her and Klaas de Vries.Big deal.But they,whomever they are,made a big deal on it without any proof,at all.
But we've gotten used to that coming from that de Vries person now haven't we.

[Marengo]

Well, the big deal in the end that she and her husband lied to the Prime Minister and to the Queen. The whole affair, television programme and other scandals were just colatoral damage, so to speak. It made her and her husband the jolly jokers of the Dutch public for a while. So even though I am not too fond of Peter R de Vries and his ways he was able to show that Mabel and Friso lied, which was the reason why they didn't ask parlament to approve of the marriage (they would have voted against it for sure).

[sgl]

What happened to Peter de Vries after the scandal broke? Is he a detective? How did he uncover the information? I apologize if this has already been stated, but I couldn't locate it in the thread.