The Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima, Current Events 3 (Sept 2004 - Feb 2005)

[xxPatrickxx]

I think it is beautiful to!

[Danielle]

Me too. :) I wouldn't mind living there.

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Originally Posted by xxLindaxx

In my opinion..it's not ugly at all..I think it's beatiful..

It's just very plain. There must be hundreds of houses/castles that are so much prettier, I don't understand either why they chose this one.

[xxPatrickxx]

new picture interview HRH Princess Máxima from NOVA

[xxPatrickxx]

Left: A picture from a fashion show from Natan

Right: Princess Máxima at the funeral from HRH Prince bernhard

Máxima's clothes are from NATAN and Valentino... but are there more fashion houses where she buy's here clothes??

[xxPatrickxx]

Rember it! Interview Princess Máxima 22:20 NL3!!!!!!!!!!!

Nova with Máxima!

[pdas1201]

Some pics from Maxima's interview on Nova.

[marezdote]

I tried to see the interview on Nova's site but can't get it to play. The box comes up but nothing happens. Is anyone else having this problem? Anyone know how I can get the video to play? Thanks!

[AnaM]

Is there an online version to the interview? I thought it was just the preview that was linked online.

[marezdote]

Originally Posted by AnaM

Is there an online version to the interview? I thought it was just the preview that was linked online.

You might be right. The video I am talking about can be found here..
http://www.novatv.nl/index.cfm?cfid=...ortage_id=3217

I can't understand that language I thought it was the interview but it may only be a preview.

[The Watcher]

You can see the whole interview on: http://www.novatv.nl

Click on the big "MA" (that's from Maandag, in english: monday). And then click on "Complete uitzending".

I think it was a great interview, I am impressed by the princess. It is such a wonderful lady.:)

[xxLindaxx]

Originally Posted by xxPatrickxx

Linda heard it from Someone from The Benelux Message board..... Linda said to me that the picture's are gone...:)

I can't find the pictures neither...i heard it from Sander from BRMB..sorry..I had to check it first before I post it

[xxLindaxx]

article from expatica:

Princess stresses positive
side to integration process

15 February 2005

AMSTERDAM — Both the Dutch government and immigrants must respond more positively to integration, Argentinean-born Princess Maxima said on Monday night.

Speaking on television show Nova in her first in-depth interview, Princess Maxima said the Dutch government must recognise that there is more to gain from the richness of cultural differences.

"So much goes wrong as regards ignorance and misunderstandings. Simply, we must want to see the richness of integration," she said.

But she also said new arrivals need to be more open towards the process of integration, asserting further that immigrants should not remain on the sidelines and instead accept their responsibility, public news service NOS reported.

Princess Maxima said she understands the situation faced by immigrants. "I myself am an immigrant. But ultimately it is all about your own energy, your own will power. You must not continue to live in your own circle," she said.

Pointing out that she "took her chances", Maxima is trying to "take part" in the Netherlands. Rather than always missing their land of origin, immigrants must make a go of it in the Netherlands.

Admitting that she is not in the same position as most immigrants, Maxima stressed that her special position means she can achieve many things. "I am apolitical, so I can help to bring the parties together," she said.

Deeply interested in social cohesion, the princess envisions for herself a pivotal role in efforts to improve integration, asserting that the monarchy is a symbol of unity.

Maxima intends to focus in the future on third generation migrants: "The third generation is somewhat more troublesome because these people are a little bit in between [their ancestral culture and the Netherlands]".

Previously, she served as a member of the PaVEM Commission, which advises the government on integration issues affecting immigrant women. The commission, which was established in July 2003, will be disbanded in the summer and municipal councils will be asked to implement its findings.

Although she wants to continue working on the issue of integration, Maxima, who is pregnant, also said in the coming two years she intends to focus much of her time on daughter Princess Amalia and her second child, whose birth is due mid-summer.

Maxima has now officially completed her own integration process, having spent time with 110 Dutch institutes and companies.

And she now feels at home in the Netherlands, having first arrived here in August 1999. Maxima remembers the neatness and the amount of flowers the country displayed, while a woman on a bike, with two children and groceries also made an immediate impression.

But the princess — who married Crown Prince Willem-Alexander in Amsterdam in February 2002 — can no longer go about unnoticed in public. She is not prepared to hide though, saying that previous occasions when she tried to escape publicity were terrible. "Why should I hide? Am I doing something that should remain a secret?" she said.

[xxLindaxx]

from the Máxima messageboard:

2,3 million Dutch people have watched the intervieuw with Máxima yesterday :) That is really very much for a Dutch tv show !

link to the intervieuw: http://www.novatv.nl/link.cfm?table=...id&keyval=3217

[xxPatrickxx]

Originally posted by xxLindaxx
from the Máxima messageboard:

2,3 million Dutch people have watched the intervieuw with Máxima yesterday :) That is really very much for a Dutch tv show !

link to the intervieuw: http://www.novatv.nl/link.cfm?table..._id&keyval=3217

Wow... That is really much!!

[Amilia]

Her dutch is so good . :)

[xxPatrickxx]

Originally posted by Amilia
Her dutch is so good .

Yes!! I agree!

[xxPatrickxx]

She makes only little mistakes.. In ducht is I= IK, and she says: IEK (example)

[xxLindaxx]

yes, her Dutch has improved a lot :)

[carlota]

some dutchs told me her dutch was practically perfect...