Squidgy
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Alexandria said:It seems to me that Queen Juliana, or perhaps it was Prince Bernhard, or both of them, were quite vigilant in their regular (not sure if they were annual or not, but frequent enough) photoshoots of themselves with their children and grandchildren. (More of the Queen and Prince with their grandchildren as the grandchildren became older I've noticed however.) They've become nice nostalgic reminders of the now grown princes and princesses -- sometimes we can even see their own children reflected in their own young faces.
While I know that Beatrix won't have nearly as many grandchildren as her mother did, I do hope that we can see some pictures of her with all of her sons, daughter-in-laws and grandchildren in the very near future. (It would've seemed reasonable and logical to have some taken in conjunction with the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations back in the spring, especially since some formal portraits were taken of the Queen herself.)
Princess Margriet seems to conduct such photoshoots every few years. There are many pictures of her and Pieter with all four of their sons, then with Maurits and Bernhard Jr. and their new wives, then with her grandchildren. Soon I hope we'll get ones of her and Pieter with their two other new daugher in laws and baby Felecia!
Marengo said:thanks Squidgy! Those pictures are indeed from the mid/late seventies, I think 1976 and 1978/1977, as princess Christina is shown wihout children in the first pic and only with her eldest son Bernardo in the second picture. I remember that in the 80-ties a familypicture was taken in 1987, on the occasion of the olden wedding of Juliana and Bernhard. In 1997 the same happened when they celebrated their diamond wedding and that picture was taken in Kenia. Sadly, I was unable to find these pictures.
I would like to see new pics of the van Vollenhoven clan as well, the last pictures of the family are very recent I think, so we probably have to wait for at least a year.
DDD said:Isn't it weird that the children have blond hair and their parents brown hair?
DDD said:Isn't it weird that the children have blond hair and their parents brown hair?
The Watcher said:According RTL Boulevard, Maurits and Marilene want to make a deal with the press, just like Willem-Alexander and Máxima. They find that the paparazzi makes too much pictures of them and their family. They are also not amused with the pictures in Prive this week.
Link: http://www.prive.nl/
Source: ATR
Alexandria said:What a gross invasion of privacy not to mention normal standards of decency of Prive to print such a private moment!
Good for Maurits and Marilene. Although this is the first time the van Vollenhovens have had such a problem it seems. Maurits and Marilene and Bernhard Jr. and Annette have usually been pretty tolerant of the paprazzi. I wonder if such a decision by M&M will make Bernhard Jr. and Annette follow suit to protect their young family?
susan alicia said:do not agree,
think nothing should be done in public that you do not want in the papers
(goes for all of us but definitely for royals)
photofan said:I was reading all this "stuff" and: do you all think that breastfeed it's an embarrasing or a bad thing to do in public??? cause' I don't think that!
oskana said:no offense...ok i am going to get alot of angry faces but yes i do think that breast feeding is embarrasing...its not a bad thing ofcourse... but its an uncomfortable thing to do in public for sure...as a mother it made me uncomfortable myself. i did it once and when people passed by i was uncomfortable to say the least and i also recieved dirty looks which made me realize that it make others uncomfortable as well. but as mother i understand if u have to than u do it...but i dont deny that its uncomfortable to see that. just being honest. for them to publish pictures of that is disgusting. its a private moment and it should have been kept tha way.
photofan said:I was reading all this "stuff" and: do you all think that breastfeed it's an embarrasing or a bad thing to do in public??? cause' I don't think that!
photofan said:I was reading all this "stuff" and: do you all think that breastfeed it's an embarrasing or a bad thing to do in public??? cause' I don't think that!
Squidgy said:I have absolutely no problem with a woman nursing in public & am grateful that I live in a region where it is actually my legal right to nurse in public without being harrassed, or told to cover up, or to move to the washroom, etc.
In an ideal world, such a picture wouldn't cause any of us alarm, concern, etc. Seeing a mother nursing her child in public would be as natural as seeing a mother help her 4 year old child to eat by cutting up their food in at a restaurant. However, unfortunately most of us do not live in such a society. The breast has become so sexualized (used to sell cars, clothes, beer, pretty well everything) that many of us have forgotten what its primary purpose is. And because we are not in an ideal world & some people will look at that picture and somehow associate it with something sexual, I feel that Marilene's privacy has been grossly invaded.
Squidgy said:I have absolutely no problem with a woman nursing in public & am grateful that I live in a region where it is actually my legal right to nurse in public without being harrassed, or told to cover up, or to move to the washroom, etc.
In an ideal world, such a picture wouldn't cause any of us alarm, concern, etc. Seeing a mother nursing her child in public would be as natural as seeing a mother help her 4 year old child to eat by cutting up their food in at a restaurant. However, unfortunately most of us do not live in such a society. The breast has become so sexualized (used to sell cars, clothes, beer, pretty well everything) that many of us have forgotten what its primary purpose is. And because we are not in an ideal world & some people will look at that picture and somehow associate it with something sexual, I feel that Marilene's privacy has been grossly invaded.
Regina said:IMO moms should do that in homes, not in public places. It is a very special moment between mother and son, it shouldn't be shared by strangers.
Alexandria said:I think nursing is one of the most natural things in the world and nothing for Marilene or any mother to be embarassed about -- she/they are doing one of the most basic things in life -- nourishing their babies. I don't feel that any mother, royal or otherwise, should be relegated to their home or a bathroom or ostracized somewhere for doing something so essential and natural.
Regina said:Obviously it's a natural and essential thing to do, Alexandria, no one is saying it's not natural. But I have the right to say if I would like to do that in public or not and I ask you to be more educated when you write that people who don't like to give breastfeeding in public have some "problem". I don't know if you have children or not but it's not because you give breastfeed in public that make you a better mother, that you can be sure.
Regina said:That's my opinion and you have to respect it (like I respected everyone who had different opinions from mine) without offending people who doesn't think the way you do. You are administrator of trf but that doesn't give you the right to try to be the "moralizer of people".