Marika86
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Apparently the dress is made by Claes Iversen. This is his sketch:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CszKnGeXEAEBFEm.jpg
Thanks for that! It couldn't have been Natan...
** dpp gallery: Prinsjesdag 2016 **
** zimbio: King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima Of The Netherlands Attend Budget Day **
I would make a plea for the King wearing an uniform again. I understand that Prinsjesdag is a civic affair but military wear grand tenue, as we can see in the Hall of Knights. As any retired officer the King can wear a military tenue for events.
Uniformed aides-de-camp from the Military House of the King were seated besides the royal dais. High ranked officers and Knights Militaire Willems-Orde were in grand tenue in the Hall of Knights.
No,HM can not wear a uniform to every occasion,especially NOT when it is non military but a State affair in his role as Monarch.The military outfits of adjutants,well,it's their working clothes...I thought you would have understood that after so many decades on fora..
But protocol is protocol,and it is written at Palaces,not at votre maison monsieur...
I suppose he could wear the costume and sash that he used at his inauguration, which had a simular dress code. It looks rather strange, the queen in a big dress, jewels and sash and the king in his morning tenue. But I am sure they have the dress code correct. Prince Claus and Prince Bernhard both wore a morning coat (in Bernhards case after the Lockheed affair) to this event, without orders.
I never understood why HM gave up wearing militairy costumes in the first place. But I doubt that it will be changed. Perhaps they thought it looked too much like an operetta.
A wedding is a civil engagement. A reception is a civil engagement. A state banquet is a civil engagement. Retired officers are free to wear a military tenue. The King included. By drawing a strict line between civil and military, it is like excluding the hardworking and courageous men and women in the armed forces from normal society. Until April 30th 2013 the Prince of Orange wore military tenues but also then he was by not in active military service but attached to the Reserve. This did not stop the Prince to wear military tenue at Prinsjesdag.
It didn't stop the Prince,no,indeed,but he's the Monarch now ,..happened little over 3 years ago...and as such represents the whole Nation,and a Monarch doesn't enter Parliament in Military adoo,never.
It didn't stop the Prince,no,indeed,but he's the Monarch now ,..happened little over 3 years ago...and as such represents the whole Nation,and a Monarch doesn't enter Parliament in Military adoo,never.
Actually all monarchs, except the King of Sweden, wear uniforms in parliament.
And why only the royal ladies use their orders while the men don´t (although the King and his brothers wore orders during his mother´s reign at Prinsjesdag wearing also morning suit like today!) is beyond me...