Prinsjesdag 2013-2022


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Amalia is surprising. She looks confident, shows more and more of her personality and has good taste in fashion. Good thing she appears more and more at official events.
 
Eeerrrmmmm.... In 1980 she became Queen on the day Amsterdam saw the worst riots ever, in 2010 she had an object thrown to the Golden State Coach during the ceremonial procession on Prinsjesdag, earlier that year a madman caused mass panic and a stampede during the National Remembrance on May 4th, in 2009 there was an attack on her life on Queen's Day in which 7 people died and many wounded (an idiot tried to ram a panoramic autobus with the royal family, live on television).

The Government presents new plans. The King is head of Government. So the ceremonial events at Prinsjesdag are an excellent opportunity to show discontent with the Government.
And the discontent is very deep as the enormous agriculture industry in the Netherlands apparently feels substantially threatened by "woke green-left climate cuddlers" and a deep gap between "les Pays-Bas profonde" (the traditional rural Netherlands) and the majority living in densely populated urban areas becomes visible. The Randstad alone, a cluster of cities in the provinces Holland and Utrecht has 8,33 million inhabitants.
I felt deeply, especially for the Pcss of Orange, at her first state opening of parliament! The protests looked and sounded horrendous. I cannot recall any worse protests at a royal event at so many spots along a royal route since about 40 years! I even felt the cheering even among monarchy friendly people and "Orange fans" were not particular loud, affectionate or enthusiastic!
The riots in 1980, when Beatrix succeeded to the dutch throne, were NOT against the monarchy, but against rental politics of the then government! The mass panic in 2010 caused by a mad man was also not anti-royalist. And the attack you are refering to on Queen's Day in which 7 people died and many were wounded, was a rampage.
At this year´s Prinsjesdag, protests at the very processional route of the royal family and in front of the palace during the balcony appearance seems very anti-monarchists to me and not specifically against governmental decisions. Please do correct me if I`m weong! I even spotted a woman gesticulating her thumbs down demonstratively towards the coach of the King and Queen...

In these days there is much talk about the future of the monarchy in Britain. Seeing these scenes in The Hague I´m much more worried about the future of the dutch throne!
 
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I felt deeply, especially for the Pcss of Orange, at her first state opening of parliament! The protests looked and sounded horrendous. I cannot recall any worse protests at a royal event at so many spots along a royal route since about 40 years! I even felt the cheering even among monarchy friendly people and "Orange fans" were not particular loud, affectionate or enthusiastic!
The riots in 1980, when Beatrix succeeded to the dutch throne, were NOT against the monarchy, but against rental politics of the then government! The mass panic in 2010 caused by a mad man was also not anti-royalist. And the attack you are refering to on Queen's Day in which 7 people died and many were wounded, was a rampage.
At this year´s Prinsjesdag, protests at the very processional route of the royal family and in front of the palace during the balcony appearance seems very anti-monarchists to me and not specifically against governmental decisions. Please do correct me if I`m weong! I even spotted a woman gesticulating her thumbs down demonstratively towards the coach of the King and Queen...

In these days there is much talk about the future of the monarchy in Britain. Seeing these scenes in The Hague I´m much more worried about the future of the dutch throne!


It is not anti-monarchist but anti-State: note the national flags upside down: down with the State which enforces a lockown, down with the State which endorses vaccinations, down with the State which can not control sky-rocking house prices, down with the State which imposed heavy santions on Russia which seem hurt "us" triple as hard as it hurts the Russians, down with the State which wants "to eradicate all farmers" because of "some nitrogen pollution" and look at that "traitor" (the King) the embodiment of the so hated State.

What is better than this ceremonial procession to show discontent for a maximum audience? Exactly the same opportunity which was grabbed in 1980 when Amsterdam had the worst riots ever on Investiture Day. What happened in The Hague (jeering, booing, showing middle finger) did happen in 2002 at the Royal Wedding by fierce protesters against the daughter of a minister under the military dictatorship. Both this was just 1% of what happened in 1980, which was nothing less than a street war in Amsterdam.
 
I'll say, the majority of the Dutch still love the House of Orange Nassau & its good & bad sites of history.
 
I'll say, the majority of the Dutch still love the House of Orange Nassau & its good & bad sites of history.

It is indeed small but extremely vocal group which threatens politicians and their families, which blockade access to (or even ram) state buildings and major roads, which sets fire in 5G antennas (because they feel it is the Government spreading cancer or even controlling us all via secretly implanted chips). The more idiot the conspiration, the better.

But for an example fauna-activists copy the same tactics. The King closes the Royal Domains, for 3 months per year. (Used to be six months of closure under Juliana). The only real undisturbed nature in the Netherlands. They always and ever frame the King as someone who takes his gun to eradicate wildlife, every day. In reality the King hunts one day a year and always escorted by the Chef of the Royal Forestry.

Now the fauna-activists (with blockades and disturbing access to the Royal Domains) "promise" to leave the King in peace when he ends his participation (the one day per year he hunts). But this is actually enforcing someone to do or not to do something totally legal and effectively hostage-and-ransom tactics.

Anyway, no fun era to be a head of state or a politician, these unseen times.
 
Love the Dutch royals

I'll say, the majority of the Dutch still love the House of Orange Nassau & its good & bad sites of history.

My family are very pro House of Orange, in good & bad times, being Dutch helps.
 
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