I just think that the royal family should have step out of the bus and be along with the victims and give their support to them in the street near them, be more close to their people and not only wave on a bus. On a moment like this they should not only fell sorry, but also make something with "their own hands".That would make a lot of difference. Of course we have security problems but there were many many police officers there that could have escolt some members of the Royal family to the tragic place just for a while, that would make a big difference!
Well because they are human being from flesh and blood I think that they maybe could have step out of the bus, of course that was a big security problem but they could have done it, that is just me thinking what they could have done... Of course I know that medical services where more needed at that time, but to me that image of them waving and them what happen to those people that were there just to see them again waving...I cannot explain better sorry
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With all due respect . . .
I honestly do feel that I get the general idea of what it is that you're saying.
However . . .
In my humble opinion, there might and could possibly have been a larger catastrophe had the royals even attempted to get off the bus. And as others have stated as well, medical personnel --- who would CERTAINLY have been able to assist the victims more immediately, logically and readily than any of the royals --- were on the scene and attending to the needs of the injured. In my mind, had any of the royals been so foolish as to leave the bus to go to the injured, their presence would have been hindering what was logically the first piority then, which would have been to attend to the needs of the wounded.
And their presence there might also have caused more people to be injured and killed, as it was not known at the time whether or not this man had any accomplices in the crowd. And by then, anyway, he had also clearly shown that he did not care at all who else he injured in order to get to the royals.
Also --- and I'm choosing to be blunt, here --- if their security people were worth a damn, anyway, then they would have kept any of the royals ---
even by using physical force, if need be ---
AWAY from any areas at all where the wounded/dead were, or were being worked on or attended to, should any of them have been so foolish as to try to move off the bus and into those areas.
As a sort of paralell example . . .
When our President was sworn in earlier this year, he and his wife decided to leave the security of their car and walk for part of their parade route (at least a couple of times, as I recall now) to the reviewing stand.
Had anyone with an agenda chosen to try to injure them, believe me, regardless of whoever else might have happened to have gotten injured --- simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time --- the Secret Service security detail surrounding them and in their car would've hustled them ---
physically --- out of the line of fire, or whatever, into their car, and out of there.
IMMEDIATELY.
I feel that Queen Beatrix and the rest of the royals DID meet the standard of what it is that I believe you're referring to and suggesting.
The Queen took to the Dutch television airwaves to express her and her family's shock and dismay over what had happened. And NO one who actually witnessed that footage, I believe, can doubt for one second her honest anguish and grief over the events of the day. She --- as well as other royals --- visited the surviving victims in the hospital. I have no insight at all into the inner workings of their security detail, but I would tend to believe that security for all of those visits was much heavier than it would have been otherwise. Yet the royals chose to go ahead and personally visit the wounded after the incident. They could just as easily have chosen to stay inside the walls of Het Loo (that's the palace they were in, I believe?) and be updated via phone calls, etc., regarding the condition of the wounded. Or just spoken to them (were it permitted) via phone. As far as I know, they will also be in attendance at a formal service of mourning and remembrance, later on this week. And, from what I gathered, by reading this thread, the Queen has already stated that the Queensday celebrations will be continued in the future, as per usual.
Again, I personally feel they've met the standard of what I think you might be expecting from them, given who they are and the circumstances involved.
These are just my thoughts and observations regarding what you stated earlier.