Duc_et_Pair
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An overview of the last year by the Algemeen Dagblad.
The title is rather telling: A year filled with blunders: king has lost confidence by his own doing
And they pose the question: can the king restore the broken trust after the series of communication blunders of the past year?
In the article follows an overview:
- Greek vacation(s)
- ignoring sanitary COVID restrictions by shaking hands
- ignoring sanitary rules in Greece by posing maskless with a restaurant owner
- Speedboat
- Attending the Grand Prix and posing with prince Bernhard - while the entire cabinet was absent - which apparently led to frowned eye brows in the government and in parlament
- Closing of the crown estates for hunting
On the positive side: princess Amalia returning her dotation.
As for the future: two state visits to European countries are planned in october and november [note on the Warholm boards it is suggested that they will visit Norway in october] and as soon as the pandemic allows it the pair will be visiting the Dutch Caribbean.
Blessed is the nation when "scandals" comprise these futilities. Where is the corruptism, the nepotism, the favoritism, the bribery, the money laundering, the white-washing, the being open for favours in exchange for money, the over-exploitation of staff or the un-allowed spending of state money in all this?
Oh wait... was it all then? Posing with a Greek restaurant owner? Shaking hands in an overcrowded enthusiast The Hague neighbourhood? Buying a boat with his private money, to be used by his private holiday estate? Attending a F1 in the own backyard of Huis ten Bosch organized by his own cousin?
Felix Nederlandiæ !
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