Tina
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Thanks lots Squidgy for your answer.Becuase i saw a picture of the ladies sat in the line with the Queen, there was someone look like Princess Irene.Squidgy said:I don't think either Princess attended the service. I imagine though that they will both be at the Church on Saturday. Christina is supposed to sing at the wedding (although there have been rumours that she is having problems with her voice). We will have to wait & see.
Marengo said:Thanks, but I think the term Johnny and Anita is a bit old, these days one can be glad to be named like that as many parents give their children utterly vulgar names (they want to be original and uncommon, but they are very common in this wish). A cousin of mine, to the shock of the family, called her son and daughter Aurum and Venice. Can you imagine being 80 years old and your name is Venice??? What a burden! The worst name I saw this week in the 'born' section of the newspaper was 'Danysha'.
The accents.... pff, where shall I start? It is my favourite frustration at the university. I dislike people immediately (to quickly most of the times) when they have this accent. Especially at university it is a plague, it is so fake and terribly ugly and pretentious! All the princes suffer from it as well, most notably Friso and Pieter-Christiaan. Laurentien had it as well (of course with such a father one could not expect differently), which was one of the main reasons that she was not that much liked in the beginning of her marriage, later on everybody saw that Laurentien was actually quite down-to-earth and likeble, and even the accent is not that horrible anymore.
WA scaled down quite a bit on the accent as well (it is still there though), it must be either Maxima or a PR consultant who are the cause of this. The elder royals speak in a much more natural way, although their accent is much more sophisicated then that of the younger generation. I think the Queen is unique in her way of talking and Irene, Margriet and Christina talk as one would expect from 'old money families'.
In my opinion Mabel has the worst accent. I heard the engagement announcement on the radio, but I switched chanel because of the horrible (HORRIBLE!!!) accent of hers.
I dont think Anette is from Brabant but from the province of Utrecht (I am not sure about it though). Her way of speaking doesn t have any pretentions and could pass as standard dutch.
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There are indeed so many accents here, which surprises my foreign friends as well. Sometimes television even uses subtitles when people from the (north)east or the south (or Flanders) are speaking.
ladybelline said:I was thniking about Tomorrow's ceremony. It's on the afternoon, right?So I suppose it means long dresse and tiaras for ladies, and long jackets for men?
(because I remember last year:the Danish wedding on the afternoon: long gowns and tiaras; Spanish wedding on the morning: knee-lenght dresses and hats.)
Marengo said:Correct, the brooches are diamond rose. The queen wore them for example as well when she got engaged to Prince Claus. There are 5 roses which can be used differently. Beatrix used them as pendants for a necklace once and Juliana used them as a wedding tiara/bandeau (together with small pearls), probably to honour her husband Prince Berhard as the symbol of the Lippe family is a rose.
The Queen looked indeed very subdued, I think she used this dress before, for an official photograph (the hat looks also familiar). I can't wait for Saturday, Maxima usually knows how to sparkle on such occassions! The bride will probably be wearing the laurel wreath tiara, as did her two sisters-in-law and Margarita of Bourbon-Parma.
susan alicia said:I live in Amsterdam too and if I see someone calling out to his bulldog "winSton" with irene's rarified way of pronouncing the S, I will know that is Marengo
Squidgy said:Marengo, thank you for once again answering one of my questions - you are a wealth of information not only on the Dutch RF, but also Dutch society in general.
I was particularly fascinated by your conversation with Princess Olga on the use of accents among the upper classes (or upper class wannabes). Coming from a country which doesn't really have an aristocracy, I find it hard to believe that in this day & age, people of the upper classes would still want to separate themselves from other classes through use of an accent ... but such are the mysteries of life!
Marengo said:well, I am glad to be of help & I like to inform you, or other people who are interested.
As princess Olga and Eva-Britt stated, this accent is so unnatural (not only when Princess Mabel uses it) that it so obvious that it is either nouveau riche children or children who went to hockeyclubs/ certain student societies. To me it sounds silly and unsophisticated but I am sure that the people who are using it do not agree with me. The old fashioned posh way of speaking is rather elegant to me, it sounds a bit softer and more french/german.
Accents like this are not uncommon in the rest of Europe either, my friend from Portugal complains for example about the new-rich children from the suburbs of Porto, who also use a certain accent. But I think that even in the US (and maybe Canada) accents are used to distinguish people? The Texas accent isn't considered very suitable for snobbish people either I think?
Maud Alexandra said:The car used to transport the bride and groom did indeed once belong to the late King Olav V of Norway.
The car now is owned by a company called Meijers Autobedrijf in Utrecht, The Netherlands and not owned by the dutch royal family.
In Norway we have a rather small royal family and it has been customary to sell their old cars when the need for upgrading the court's car park arise. So it's not unusual to see old limosines previously owned by the royal court on norwegian roads. When my sister got married 2 years ago, the limosine they used was an old american limosine formerly owned by the late King Olav the V.
I guess the royal couple have borrowed the car like the normal population could do too.
misshelen said:Nice Eloise was also present! Pictures van Tellingen