The Court & Courtiers of Queen Beatrix

[Marengo]

Joris on the BRMB provided a link to some pictures of the carriage ride. Martine van Loon is wearing a hat worthy of HM herself :

Koetstocht | Gespot

[Marengo]

Sjoert Klein Schiphorst (1963-) will be the new marshal of the Dutch court, he will succeed Hans van Eenennaam, who functioned as court marshal for 10 years.

Klein Schiphorst previous occupation was manager of estate Duin and Kruidberg and the star restaurant Santpoort-Noord. He is originally from Nijmegen, went to the Hoge Hotel School in maastricht, worked for the Golden Tulip Hotels became hotelmanager of Hotel and Castle Vaalsbroek before he went to Duin & Kruidberg. He is married and has 3 children.

Source: royalblog.nl

[marmi]

Thanks for the info Marengo. What is the role of a Marshal in a royal court?

[Marengo]

Mrs. Martine van Loon-Labouchere, Grand Mistress of the Queen, has her 'own' museum, dedicated to the van Loon family at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. At the moment there is an exhibition about various ladies that married into the van Loon family.

Mrs. van Loon-Labouchere comments about it here:

YouTube - mevrouw Van Loon - Labouchere geeft toelichting op de tentoonstelling Vrouwen van Van Loon

The video is also shown at the exhibition, and many people had to smile about the posh accent of Mrs. van Loon (when I was there anyway). She seems a wonderful woman with a good sense of humor.

::::Museum van Loon::::

[Marengo]

Originally Posted by marmi

Thanks for the info Marengo. What is the role of a Marshal in a royal court?

The court marshall arranges the dinners, guestrooms etc etc. A bit like the manager of a hotel.

[Marengo]

Martine van Loon-Labouchere attended the AmsterdamDiner:

http://www.royalportraits.nl/watermark.php?filesrc=./data/media_small/518/_MG_8659.jpg

[Marengo]

Yesterday there was the annual carriage ride through Amsterdam with ambassadors and such. As each year Martine van Loon-Labouchere was in the first carriage.

Among other things, the group (around 50 people) went to the cigar shop 'Hajenius', on the Rokin. After that they went to Cafe Hoppe, to Museum Huize van Loon, on the Keizersgracht, and finally to some art galeries in the Nieuwe Spiegelstraat.

The thing was sponsered by the Stan Huygens Journaal and Lucas Bols B.V. The carriages were borrowed from people who bought them as a hobby, though the van loon Museum is trying to buy a carriage, since they bought the carriage house back a few years ago. I suspect the budget was tight, as no diner was included and by the time it was over most people seemed rather hungry.

[Marengo]

Martine van Loon-Labouchere has not been accompanying HM on the state visits to Oman and the UAE. She stayed at home due to health reasons. This was already announced in December btw.