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Another great photo Count Claus-Casimir is blessed among women!
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01-31-2018, 04:04 PM
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Her firstborn granddaughter looks so much like her!
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01-31-2018, 04:07 PM
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Her firstborn granddaughter looks so much like her!
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You think? I always thought Eloise (like her siblings) looked particularly like her mother Laurentien...
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01-31-2018, 04:15 PM
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I noticed similarity in their faces and remembered photos of Princess Beatrix when she was younger.
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01-31-2018, 05:24 PM
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Just saw a retrospect, Beatrix 80, and the interesting thing of young Princess Beatrix in her new home (Drakensteyn): I saw a shelf with pictures of her family. And next to it a portrait of King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. For the rest no other foreign royals, only them. I thought that was nice and touching.
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01-31-2018, 05:58 PM
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Princess Beatrix many moons ago at the castle and area where the wonderful photo released today with all her many adorable grandchildren was taken!
https://www.holland.com/upload_mm/4/...kensteyn-1.jpg
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01-31-2018, 06:41 PM
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Just saw a retrospect, Beatrix 80, and the interesting thing of young Princess Beatrix in her new home (Drakensteyn): I saw a shelf with pictures of her family. And next to it a portrait of King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. For the rest no other foreign royals, only them. I thought that was nice and touching.
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Quite telling considering that Belgian law still forbids the princes and princesses "van België" from ever marrying an Orange-Nassau, doesn't it ?
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02-01-2018, 01:46 AM
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What fabulous pictures showing the Princess with her sons, daughter in laws and grandchildren. Still its bittersweet that her beloved Claus and Johan Friso are no longer with her.
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02-01-2018, 03:22 AM
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Quite telling considering that Belgian law still forbids the princes and princesses "van België" from ever marrying an Orange-Nassau, doesn't it ?
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And that it was only in the interbellum, under Wilhelmina, that there were formal contacts with the Von Sachsen-Coburgs, who "stole" their throne. Wilhelmina's very own father (Willem III) was born in Brussels, one of the two capitals of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands, it was all not that very long ago.
Maybe the young Princess Beatrix learned King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola and was very attached to them.
Here you see a still.
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02-01-2018, 05:48 AM
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A wonderful retrospective of Beatrix and her millineries.
I always have a complicated feeling to Beatrix's hats. I mean, personally I don't like her iconic hat at all (the large hat without brim like this one), but she always looks so well with them!
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02-01-2018, 07:01 AM
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Prinses Glimlach (Princess Smile) - a short video. (Including "who glitters more, you or me? EIIR and BR)
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02-01-2018, 07:28 AM
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If Beatrix was still queen I'd assume there would be a large royal gathering to celebrate the occasion ,hopefully the Princess got some cake!
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02-01-2018, 07:59 AM
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If Beatrix was still queen I'd assume there would be a large royal gathering to celebrate the occasion ,hopefully the Princess got some cake!
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From what we understood in media, the birthday was celebrated in small circle. This weekend there will be a larger party in the Royal Palace Amsterdam.
No idea if we can expect royals. I think it will be family and friends: the Von Amsbergs, the Von Friesens, the Von der Reckes, the Von Oeynhausens, the Von Bismarcks, the Zur Lippes, the Zu Waldeck und Pyrmonts, the usual suspects.
In the NOS documentary yesterday it was claimed that -as Queen- Beatrix had "frozen" her friendships. Since her abdication she has picked up the old friendships again, apparently feeling that she was "free again" to go out and about and invest in private friendships.
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02-01-2018, 05:50 PM
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It's hard to believe that she is 80, she is one fantastic lady.
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02-03-2018, 05:01 AM
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Celebrated in a small circle as you say.HM the King hosted a dinner for the extended Family at Noordeinde Palace on wednesday evening.The extended Family consists of a "crowd " nowadays,wonderfull!! 
Today,saturday, is the grand party at the Royal Palace,Amsterdam with 350 family & friends of our precious birthday girl!!Looking forward!
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From what we understood in media, the birthday was celebrated in small circle. This weekend there will be a larger party in the Royal Palace Amsterdam.
No idea if we can expect royals. I think it will be family and friends: the Von Amsbergs, the Von Friesens, the Von der Reckes, the Von Oeynhausens, the Von Bismarcks, the Zur Lippes, the Zu Waldeck und Pyrmonts, the usual suspects.
In the NOS documentary yesterday it was claimed that -as Queen- Beatrix had "frozen" her friendships. Since her abdication she has picked up the old friendships again, apparently feeling that she was "free again" to go out and about and invest in private friendships.
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Looking forward to the photos from Beatrix's grand party at the Royal Palace,Amsterdam!
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02-03-2018, 11:38 AM
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02-03-2018, 11:39 AM
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The royal family looks very Saturday-casual. I have no idea what the dresscode is. Suit-and-tie? Black tie? I assume the royals will change in their suites in the palace.
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02-03-2018, 03:54 PM
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Article on the birthday today
https://www.nu.nl/achterklap/5117351...enodigden.html
google translated
Indeed, no foreign royals, of her family only her sons, daughters in law, grandchildren and sister P.Margriet and her husband Pieter van Vollenhoven (not her other sisters, nieces or nephews) and a few personal friends of P.Beatrix.
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