Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien, News & Events Part 4 (January 2018 - )

[iceflower]

Yesterday evening, June 16, Princess Laurentien attended the premiere of the musical "Dear Evan Hansen" in Amsterdam:


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[iceflower]

Prince Constantijn was seen arriving for the Nato Summit in Den Haag today, June 24:


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[iceflower]

Prince Constantijn, Princess Laurentien, Countess Eloise and Count Claus-Casimir on day 3 of Sail Amsterdam yesterday, August 22:


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[Marengo]

Laurentien and Claus Casimir on board the boat from Oman:

Shabab_Oman_ll on Instagram‎: "صاحبة السمو الأميرة/ لورنتين من العائلة المالكة الهولندية تزور السفينة #شباب_عُمان_الثانية خلال مشاركتها في مهرجان إبحار أمستردام، تعرفت خلالها على رسالتها السامية في مدّ جسور الصداقة والسلام، معربةً عن إعجابها بما تُجس

123 likes, 1 comments - shabab_oman_ll on August 23, 2025‎: "صاحبة السمو الأميرة/ لورنتين من العائلة المالكة الهولندية تزور السفينة #شباب_عُمان_الثانية خلال مشاركتها في مهرجان إبحار أمستردام، تعرفت خلالها على رسالتها السامية في مدّ جسور الصداقة والسلام، معربةً عن إعجابها بما تُجسده السفينة من...

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[Somebody]

Interesting... I wonder whether they were invited to other boats as well or just this specific one.

 

[iceflower]

Countess Eloise, Princess Laurentien and Prince Constantijn attended Eloise's My Lima Lima Fashion Show in Amsterdam yesterday, September 18. Princess Margarita attended as well:


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[iceflower]

Princess Laurentien and Countess Eloise opened the new My Lima Lima store in Den Haag today, October 11:


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[Somebody]

Is this a second location in The Hague or did they move from their original location to this new location?

 

[iceflower]

Is this a second location in The Hague or did they move from their original location to this new location?

It's the new location for their flagship store, they moved.

 

[Somebody]

Prince Constantijn is in San Francisco and attended a session hosted by the Consul General; it seems like he is on a longer trip with several Dutch tech companies in his role as Envoy. See his LinkedIn-post.

Three months ago, he also announced that he had joined a newly established advisory board for the European Commission about Quantum Strategy; see here.

 

[Halise]

Three months ago, he also announced that he had joined a newly established advisory board for the European Commission about Quantum Strategy; see here.

Very optimistic

 

[LadyFinn]

Laurentien and Eloise attended the International Children's Peace Prize Award ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall on November 19. Laurentien gave a speech at the ceremony:
Eloise posted:

ELOISE on Instagram: "stockholm recap although short & sweet, this trip was absolutely wonderful. what made it special was the @kidsrights international children’s peace prize. held yearly, this world-renowned ceremony highlights the work of one INC

8,255 likes, 103 comments - eloisevanoranje on November 23, 2025: "stockholm recap although short & sweet, this trip was absolutely wonderful. what made it special was the @kidsrights international children’s peace prize. held yearly, this world-renowned ceremony highlights the work of one...

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Swedish royal expert and author Roger Lundgren was a guest at the ceremony and met Eloise:
"Yesterday I had the great joy of meeting a young, smart entrepreneur from the Netherlands! @eloisevanoranje is the granddaughter of Queen, now Princess, Beatrix and was in Stockholm with her mother, Princess Laurentien when the organization @kidsrights awarded an international children's prize. Thank you @globalchildforum for the nice invitation and an inspiring evening!"

Roger Lundgren on Instagram: "Tack alla ni som gratulerar mig på min födelsedag idag! Ni är bäst! Igår hade jag den stora glädjen att möta en ung, smart entreprenör från Nederländerna! @eloisevanoranje är barnbarn till drottning, numera prinsessan, B

149 likes, 24 comments - royal_roger on November 20, 2025: "Tack alla ni som gratulerar mig på min födelsedag idag! Ni är bäst! Igår hade jag den stora glädjen att möta en ung, smart entreprenör från Nederländerna! @eloisevanoranje är barnbarn till drottning, numera prinsessan, Beatrix och var i...

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[Somebody]

Laurentien and Eloise attended the International Children's Peace Prize Award ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall on November 19. Laurentien gave a speech at the ceremony:
Eloise posted:

ELOISE on Instagram: "stockholm recap although short & sweet, this trip was absolutely wonderful. what made it special was the @kidsrights international children’s peace prize. held yearly, this world-renowned ceremony highlights the work of one INC

8,255 likes, 103 comments - eloisevanoranje on November 23, 2025: "stockholm recap although short & sweet, this trip was absolutely wonderful. what made it special was the @kidsrights international children’s peace prize. held yearly, this world-renowned ceremony highlights the work of one...

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Swedish royal expert and author Roger Lundgren was a guest at the ceremony and met Eloise:
"Yesterday I had the great joy of meeting a young, smart entrepreneur from the Netherlands! @eloisevanoranje is the granddaughter of Queen, now Princess, Beatrix and was in Stockholm with her mother, Princess Laurentien when the organization @kidsrights awarded an international children's prize. Thank you @globalchildforum for the nice invitation and an inspiring evening!"

Roger Lundgren on Instagram: "Tack alla ni som gratulerar mig på min födelsedag idag! Ni är bäst! Igår hade jag den stora glädjen att möta en ung, smart entreprenör från Nederländerna! @eloisevanoranje är barnbarn till drottning, numera prinsessan, B

149 likes, 24 comments - royal_roger on November 20, 2025: "Tack alla ni som gratulerar mig på min födelsedag idag! Ni är bäst! Igår hade jag den stora glädjen att möta en ung, smart entreprenör från Nederländerna! @eloisevanoranje är barnbarn till drottning, numera prinsessan, Beatrix och var i...

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My Lima Lima sponsors Kids Rights, so that must be why they were invited to this ceremony (and why Laurentien was one of the speakers).

See their 'heroes'

 

[Marengo]

A tv show researched the anscestors of Pss Laurentien. They discovered that she descends from enslaved women from Java and Malaysia who lived as concubines for European men.

Not sure this interview was a wise idea as the more she talks the stranger she sounds, comparing the injustice done to her anscestors to the injustice she experienced while she worked for at a foundation to represent victims of the child benfits scandal. It is grotesque. The self-congratulatory tone perhaps makes it better to understand where Eloise has her narcisism from.

Prinses Laurentien vergelijkt haar tot slaaf gemaakte grootmoeders met ‘onrecht’ dat haar is aangedaan

Prinses Laurentien ontdekte dat ze de nazaat is van zowel slavenhouders als van tot slaaf gemaakte vrouwen. Zelf legt ze een verband tussen het onrecht dat haar voormoeders is aangedaan en de beschuldigingen tegen haar dat ze grensoverschrijdend gedrag vertoonde tegen ambtenaren in de...

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She is pushed on the criticism she received about her behavior and fights it, which is a first time. I wonder if this was checked with the Prime Minister´s office or even with the palace. She continues to rub in a wound which at this stage is much better left untouched, especially by her. The headline I have seen everywhere now is that she compares herself to enslaved people. A rather curious take to come from a member of the royal family!

Let's hope the palace finds a way to have her stay quiet for the next years. This serves nobody, least of all herself.

 

[Blog Real]

That comparison she makes doesn't make any sense. Yes, it would have been better if she hadn't given that interview.

 

[Marengo]

Css Eloise posted an instagram message where she shows a photo of a table with many plates. It is a ´watch party´ for her mother and friends, to watch Laurentien in the programme ´sporen van slavernij´ [traces of slavery].

It seems it is not on her instagram anymore. TV oracle Tina Nijkamp reacted on her instagram and pointed out the 'total insanity' of a fun and posh dinner to watch a programme about slavery.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008258041251328450

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008252739915313336

 

[iceflower]

Eloise has reacted to the criticism today:


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"I was made aware of criticism of my post. "Watch party" wasn't the right word. It also apparently led to misconceptions, because of course it's not a party. I used it because this is what "viewing" evenings are generally called.
But that's not the point. I posted because this was a very special evening for my mother, my family, and the crew, who put so much work into the production of this beautiful programme"

"I'm grateful for the new insights into our family background and Indonesia's colonial history. It was special and emotional, especially for my mother, uncle, and great-grandfather. Thanks again to the crew for presenting such a beautiful format and story. I do wonder: how can something so important be so focused on something that's irrelevant to the larger story? And how can assumptions be made based on something you think you know the whole story of?"

 

[Marengo]

I suppose she could answer her own question if she looked in the mirror. She was the one who created this irrelevant story by indulging in her online narcisism and now she is blaming people for thinking the word 'party' means a party.

She has been an influencer for quite some years now, she will know how it works. That is why she has the -calculated- sad face in the photo. She could have forseen this criticism too.

Of course, we all make mistakes and have small lapses of judgement once in a while, it is not the end of the world. But to pretend this is all the fault of other people and have zero self reflection is rather odd. As we could see in Laurentien's interview, it is clear where she got the woe-is-me act from. Apart from the gaslighting, her statement of today about the programme is nice.

They don't seem to be unfriendly people, but these very, very priviliged people presenting themselves as victims and losing touch with reality is rather comical. She may think that as a member of the RF she receives more criticism than a regular influencer does. That is probably true. At the same time it is doubtful she would ever have been a succesful influencer had she not been a member of the RF.

In the programme itself Laurentien seemed sympathetic and emotional when finding out things about her anscestors, a reaction many people will have.

 

[Katymcwaity]

I suppose she could answer her own question if she looks in the mirror. She was the one who created this irrelevant story by indulging in her online narcisism.

Exactly, no need to post the photo. Say how interesting etc she found it afterwards. Kinda in same league as FB pics when folks are in hospital. No need at all

 

[kalnel]

I haven’t watched the show, but I’m curious what she meant by saying that it was emotional for her mother, her uncle, and her great-grandfather.

 

[An Ard Ri]

Exactly, no need to post the photo. Say how interesting etc she found it afterwards. Kinda in same league as FB pics when folks are in hospital. No need at all

She seems to be a silly foolish girl on social media but at least she or someone around her had the good sense to ger her to delete the post.

 

[Marengo]

It has been raining criticism the last dys. not only of Eloise -we are used to that- but also of Laurentien. In her column int he AD the most popular columnist of the country, Angela de Jogn, wonders how an intelligent woman like Laurentien, not raised in a palace, can have lost touch with reality to such an extend. As we have heard many times before these last years, she also urges the royal family to implement more distance. Otherwise they become simply the next annoying celebrity.

Daniela Hooghiemstra, columnist and author of some royal books, called Laurentien an 'op hol geslagen prinses' [usually a term referred to when a horse is uncontrolable and runs away].

In the chique NRC Marcel van Roosmalen writes that we already knew that something was wrong with the wiring of the princess and continues in his usual style to ridicule her.

Various commentators in various programmes on SBS critisized Laurentien, not surprising.. On RTL boulevard's Jeroen Snel was more forgiving, called it 'unhandy'.

Etc. etc.

Yesterday modekoningin's Josine Drogendijk was in the RTL late night. She says the interview distracts from the programme and wonders how on earth the journalist was able to get these statements from Laurentien. She remembers interviews with princesses where many words were afterwards redacted by the RVD. Drogendijk says that the interview was checked by 'the PR team of the Princess' and they did not understand this would be causing an issue. There are advisors at court, but do they dare to go against her?

On x royalty journalist Rick Evers points out that Laurentien has an 'impossible position'. She doesn't sit at the table with WA. Neither the court nor the RVD pay much attention to her as her royal role is very limited. The tax payer doesn't pay her. And unlike Pss Margriet, neither does the King pay her or his brother.

 

[Somebody]

I came across this positive response about Laurentien's participation in Sporen van Slavernij. The author (who is involved with Laurentien's foundation) stresses Laurentien's commitment to real connection, listening, acknowledging and acting based on equality in restoration.

 

[iceflower]

Prince Constantijn as Patron presented the prizes after the final of the Dutch Violin Competition yesterday, January 31:


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Nederlands Vioolconcours on Instagram: "Tijdens de finale van het Nederlands Vioolconcours is Rebecca Roozeman (2001) uitgeroepen tot winnaar van de Oskar Back Prijs 2026. Ze ontving daarnaast ook de publieksprijs. De finale vond plaats met het Resi

289 likes, 2 comments - nederlandsvioolconcours on January 31, 2026: "Tijdens de finale van het Nederlands Vioolconcours is Rebecca Roozeman (2001) uitgeroepen tot winnaar van de Oskar Back Prijs 2026. Ze ontving daarnaast ook de publieksprijs. De finale vond plaats met het Residentie Orkest...

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https://www.facebook.com/viooltalent/posts/pfbid022FFtcprBiZ8gC38soUZefhD1qFAARQahkZXmJYc9Bmrs539BARR7ZhBt5oSQeGxl

 

[Somebody]

I assume he discussed more than just his morning routine but in this fragment Constantijn (they skipped the 'prince') was asked about it and said that his alarm goes at 7 am. He prefers to stay in bed until 7.30. He kind of skips breakfast: just coffee and an apple.

And when asked about being jealous of his brother going to the Olympics, he references the Olympics in Calgary that he attended with his brother and very much enjoyed.

 

[Marengo]

He was there to talk about tech. Warning how we start to lag behind. I imagine he has to sit through these informal bits to get to the reason he was there.

 

[Marengo]

Prince Constantijn says on WNL that he [and techlab] is not happy with the proposal of a new ´box 3´ tax which will be implemented in 2028. A controversial proposal of the new government, wealth tax on assets—such as savings, investments, and second home. He fears it will be too complex and that it will prevent investments in the economy. He says that to investors it will signal that the country is 'not open for business'.

Prins Constantijn zeer kritisch op nieuwe box 3-belasting: 'Boodschap is: Nederland is not open for business'

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I am not sure if it is a good idea for a Prince of the realm to be critisizing government policy.

 

[Somebody]

I agree that he should not publicly share his opinion about proposed government policy. The new PM is responsible for him, so how is he supposed to defend Constantijn openly criticizing his policy?

 

[tommy100]

Very odd, remind me is Constantijn still a member of the royal House? If so he shouldn't comment on government policy IMO.

 

[Somebody]

Very odd, remind me is Constantijn still a member of the royal House? If so he shouldn't comment on government policy IMO.

Yes, he is. His children are not but both Constantijn and Laurentien are.