I don't speak Dutch, but with the help of Google Translation, it translated the interview in English. Forgive me for some errors in the text.
Interviewer:
Royal Highnesses, we are here in your future work palace. In two weeks, you are King and Queen of the Netherlands. On January 28, your mother announced that she's delivering the Kingdom to you. We now know it is a 2.5 month. How long have you known?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
Fortunately, we know about it a little longer. And we are particularly "happy", because it means that my mother and the two of us have a very good communication among ourselves and that we can therefore allow a very good transfer, I think, at least as much as possible when it comes. If you successfully communicate between generations and dare to discuss and identify problems, then you work towards such a moment. In our case it was already a little over a year before you knew it ...
Interviewer: A year?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
One year, yes. The Queen has also said in her speech on January 28, that she was doing for a long time. We have discussed at some point, such as: if the situation is calm in the Netherlands, we can announce on January 28, 2013 that it will happen on April 30, 2013.
Interviewer:
That's a long time. How was it to keep the secret for so long.
Princess Maxima:
We were a team, both the three of us and didn't go out. We were just passing our lives.
Interviewer: Never a accidental slip of the tongue?
PRINCE OF ORANGE: Yeah, haha ...
Princess Maxima: Gotta admit. All three actually ...
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
All three of us have ever made mistakes accidentally. But only if you know it, you will recognize the tongue. I can give a very crazy example. Of course you speak through scenarios, even if such a plan around those days of the abdication and inauguration. And then the evening is also discussed but of course it depends very much on what day it is in the year, what time the light is, what time it gets dark, etc. So I immediately went looking with my ipad, well, April 30, 2013, the sun and so so late. Then I got a kick under the table from Máxima: don't say it, well, we do not know what day it is.
So that kind of trifles. But, if you don't know, then other people also don't know as well.
Interviewer:
Have you spoken on previous occasions about a possible change of rule?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
No. This was the first time. This was the first time that there is a concrete date etc. talked about.
Interviewer:
If we go back to that moment, that moment when you mother decided, was it actually a notice of her or it happened by mutual agreement?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
She has said: Right now I want to talk about a period in which I'm going to transfer you. And when we looked at two or three dates together, the three of us, decided a date.
Interviewer:
Maxima you were there in that conversation. In that final conversation when it was decided the date, it was: we're going to do on April 30, 2013?
Princess Maxima:
Yes. I was always there. So yes, the three of us ... Of course, the Queen and my husband were leading it, but you know that the Queen has all the generosity with time given to us so that we can give a little more rest to our three children and take time to our family and I think it is fantastic from the Queen.
Interviewer:
When you had that conversation, at one point when you were back with a friend and then you drove home together, for example - what did you say to each other?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
You realize that now it is practical with a date. Of course you know that the easiest answer you can always give to people is "every day comes closer". But now you know how many days are left. Both the announcement and the abdication and the inauguration itself, have a target date to the time that it really was announced on 28 January. That was a very strange moment for me, because yes, you know it for over a year, and yet, on those few minutes, or say that half an hour before the announcement came out in television, it would be broadcasted at 19:00, and you can't go back. At that time, it is definitively. That would mean there was no longer only the three of us of course, but, until then, the outside world still didn't know, so you can still turn back. From that moment it is out there, it's there. And yes, that's a different feeling.
Interviewer:
And what kind of feeling is that? Did you thought: "Yes finally, I'm going to do it now, I'm ready?" Or whether you secretly thought: "pfft, could not it take longer for me?"
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
No, because you note to yourself that you are still reluctant to adopt certain calls that you don't always engage new challenges, even in the field of water or other things you are invited. You just know it: I can't finish it, I can not live up to those people. Although I can not say why. That is very ambiguous. So at some point it is really time to continue.
Interviewer:
The evening of January 28, 19.00pm to be exact, Queen Beatrix makes it known to the Dutch people, how was that night? What did you do?
Princess Maxima:
We went to Huis ten Bosch with the three girls and we ate together and watched the broadcast together. That was very special, no matter how much and how prepared we were all at that time, of course we have talked with the children before it, yet at that time, I think, like all the Dutch people, we got a very emotional moment, right?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
Yes, really emotional. You have so often read the text and then you see it for the first time on television. And yet we all got very emotional reactions, how people were affected, and yet on the other hand say: what a pity that the Queen stops after 33 years. But also on the other hand they now give her some more free time and say, okay, we just go by, she has done a fantastic job for the Netherlands, we are grateful to her. And the responses to that first night were fantastic.
Interviewer:
April 30. I suppose that day is very much fixed according to protocol. But when can we start to notice that you are King on that day?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
April 30 is fixed and time is actually so short, where it all happens. The abdication of course, is an activity of the Queen with her signature, then the balcony scene with our children and then the inauguration of the New Church as a guest of the United Meeting. The evening party and the activities of the National Committee, as we have, in consultation with the National Committee, had some influence on. At least, they have presented to us what their ideas were and we have agreed, because it was very nice to find what they are planning. They try really hard for the young and old throughout the country, throughout the kingdom, including the Caribbean parts of the Netherlands, to involve. Through the King song, through the King Games, through the dreams, the wishes that are returned. In many ways it is still my inauguration.
Interviewer:
You can print your stamp collection or give it your own color by the speeches that you are going to have. Do you have them already?
PRINCE OF ORANGE: (Laughs) ... At the time of this broadcast, they are definitely ready.
Interviewer: And this is really a very personal process?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
This is a personal process, but of course you have people who support you with that. But the beginning of the speech is really just a repository of all ideas that I want to have in there. And then you go and translate them tidy and you put it together and trim, trim, trim the end, because ...
Interviewer: Are there a lot of clots passed through the room?
PRINCE OF ORANGE:
There go a lot clots around the room. And going or the chipper, otherwise they remain even somewhere. And finally I think it has become a very nice speech, where I've worked hard, with a few people and yet with a starting point of the new kingdom.
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