Queen Beatrix: Current News Part 4 (Jan-Jun 2006)

[susan alicia]

read somewhere that the worse the situation the more beatrix smiles.

wonder how much she will smile if the US send Roland Arnall to Holland as the new ambassador :) :)

[Marengo]

Is the guy finally coming? Arnall is the corrupt guy, who bought his position, right?

Anyway, I think the Queen should stay out of matters like these, her mingling in the past didn't do her a lot of good in the press & it might put oil on the fire of the politicians who want the 'swedish model' (I personally do not think that model will come in Beatrix reign, but I m not so sure if Willem IV will ascend with the same perogatives as his mother, espeically as we will have a socialist gouverment by then, maybe even joined by the communists). Anyway, let the foreign office decide who gets what, instead of the Queen 'giving' such a nice position in London to one of her friends.

[susan alicia]

it is not odd that he is a millionaire but that his firm had something to do with mortgages/real estate for people with low incomes and was taken to court and they made his firm pay a huge amount back to them. So in fact he is not as respectable as he should be for such an honorable position.

Originally Posted by Marengo

Is the guy finally coming? Arnall is the corrupt guy, who bought his position, right?

Anyway, I think the Queen should stay out of matters like these, her mingling in the past didn't do her a lot of good in the press & it might put oil on the fire of the politicians who want the 'swedish model' (I personally do not think that model will come in Beatrix reign, but I m not so sure if Willem IV will ascend with the same perogatives as his mother, espeically as we will have a socialist gouverment by then, maybe even joined by the communists). Anyway, let the foreign office decide who gets what, instead of the Queen 'giving' such a nice position in London to one of her friends.

[Marengo]

Happy birthday to Queen Beatrix!!

[Squidgy]

Yes, "Gelukkige verjaardag" to the Queen!! (Hope I said that right and didn't just say something really horrible and rude!)

Has anyone heard how she has been progressing?

[Marengo]

No news on it, except that she is still on crutches at home and everything goes according to plan.

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Your birthday wish was lovely

[Juanita]

Happy Birthday Queen Beatrix!!!

I wish you have a great day!! :)

[fanletizia]

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_...+68th+birthday

Queen celebrates 68th birthday

31 January 2006
AMSTERDAM — Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands celebrates her 68th birthday with her family on Tuesday.
Her children and grandchildren are to gather at Huis ten Bosch Palace for the festivities. The Queen will not be taking part in any dancing, though, as she is recovering from a knee replacement operation at the start of the year.

[kwanfan]

Happy Birthday to Queen Beatrix!

[sara1981]

happy birthday HM Queen Beatrix and happiness

[CrownPrinceLorenzo]

She's not very fond of gays, this might change her mind.

[wimaamal]

Isn't she? How do you know that?

[Marengo]

Where did you get the information she doesn't like gay people? She employs gay people and there is no reason to assume she would not like them, just for their sexual preferences.
As an awnser to your question: I doubt the queen sees many movies, and I doubt even more that those she watches are from Hollywood.

[Alexandria]

Originally Posted by CrownPrinceLorenzo

She's not very fond of gays, this might change her mind.

As per our Forum's Posting Rules & Guidelines, factual evidence must be provided. Until a reliable source can be posted about Queen Beatrix being "not very fond of gays" I would encourage our members to not address this matter.

Personally I find it offensive and out of place. And as an Administrator of this forum, it violates our rules.

So, let's move on.

Alexandria
Dutch Forum Moderator

[CrownPrinceLorenzo]

I asked 'coz I found this while I was reading about Brokeback Mountain.

http://praiseoffolly.blogspot.com/20...brokeback.html

Edit: How do you do quotes?

[Alexandria]

Originally Posted by CrownPrinceLorenzo

I asked 'coz I found this while I was reading about Brokeback Mountain.

http://praiseoffolly.blogspot.com/20...brokeback.html

I would not consider this a valid source. Firstly it is a private individual's blog, not to mention that it has spelling and grammatical errors. Even in this source it states that there is no actual proof of some of these allegations (eg. Johan Friso being gay and is more "suspected" information than factual information).

[CrownPrinceLorenzo]

Thanks for clearing it up.

[sara1981]

Originally Posted by CrownPrinceLorenzo

I asked 'coz I found this while I was reading about Brokeback Mountain.

http://praiseoffolly.blogspot.com/20...brokeback.html

Edit: How do you do quotes?

thanks for articles

i didnt know that Prince Claus is gay and her son Friso is gay also but my 2 classmates also gays but i dont like it but i dont suppose it!

[Marengo]

Actually Alexandria, all the information in the article has been in the dutch press as well, except for her non-attendance of the premiere of the movie. However, the article is written in a suggestive way, and most things are explainable. I believe the same book to which they refer in the article, says that she had her doubts about gay marriage because The Netherlands would have been the first country to do so, while we are standing out in so many other controversial things already (euthenasia, soft-drugs policy).

The queen can doesn't leave the palace and she usually doesn't attend premieres of movies, and if she does they are dutch ones. So the suggestion they make in the article is a bit presumptive.

+ one of her closest counselors & godfather to Princess Catharina-Amalia, H. Tjeenk-Willink, the chairman of the Counsil of State is gay. She wouldn't have allowed that if the article was right.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by sara1981

i didnt know that Prince Claus is gay and her son Friso is gay also but my 2 classmates also gays but i dont like it but i dont suppose it!

Sara, you have to read the posts more carefully. There is no evidence that either the late Prince Claus was gay, nor that Prince Johan Friso is gay. In fact the blog states that Johan Friso was "outed" as heterosexual.