Questions about Queen Beatrix

[iceflower]

Her birthday celebrations have become a private matter. She celebrated her 80th birthday in January with a smaller and a great celebration, but privately, see here.

 

[Iain]

In one of the films made about Beatrix there is a scene where she pulls off a wig. Does she wear a wig?

 

[Marengo]

I have never read it anywhere that she read a wig. The movies and series about our royal family are painfully amateuristic, overly theatrical, dramatized and to a large extent fictional. In one of these series there is an entirely fictional conversation between Beatrix and Bernhard -about Bernhard's interviews with the Volkskrant that were published posthumously - while it is widely known that Beatrix only discovered about these interviews when they were published, after her father died (in shock she apparently said: 'which man did we bury?'.

The broadcasters who order such series/movies are usually from the public channels. This means that there are budget restraints which has its effects on the script and set. Many of these series/movies are made by the same script writer -Tomas Ross- an ardent republican who made a career out of spewing all kinds of conspiracy theories around the royal family. His last movie was about Pss Mabel who supposedly had to be rescued in the Libyan desert during the revolution while she was there as an undercover agent for the Dutch government.

The only believable portrayal of a member of the RF was in the television series about the late prime minister Den Uyl, where his many meetings with Queen Juliana & the Lockheed affair had a central role.

 

[Iain]

Thank you Marengo. I didn't think she wore a wig but thought I would ask any way. The problem with people making claims about royals is they know that they can say anything they want and the royals will not answer back.

 

[Lee-Z]

In one of the films made about Beatrix there is a scene where she pulls off a wig. Does she wear a wig?

There was a scene like that in a drama-series about Q.Beatrix, but that was fiction...do you know which film it was?

 

[Duc_et_Pair]

We have seen Queen Beatrix' perfect hairdo splashed by an unextpected wave of seawater while visiting one of the Antilles. We have seen the hairdo blowing in the wind when sailing on the Groene Draeck. We can see differences in the model and the volume of the beatrixian hairdo, which all reveals that it simply is real hair.

It seems that it is not too difficult to create the hairdo. A Carmen curl set and lots of hairspray do the trick.