Princess Amalia found ‘more freedom’ in Spain than in the Netherlands | Domestic

Princess Alexia is taking a gap year after graduating in Wales last summer. “I have been very happy to be able to travel a lot and get to know other cultures. Especially to be able to focus on something other than school,” says Alexia. “A bit of work, a bit of travel. In such a gap year, every moment is special.”

She doesn’t know yet what she will do next.

Princess Ariane, who has been going to school in Italy since September, calls it ‘a very wonderful experience’ that she can live and learn there. “I’m glad to be back now, because I do miss my parents. I miss them every day, it’s a distance,” says Ariane. Her Italian is getting ‘better every day’.

Crown Princess Amalia lives in the Netherlands again. “Due to certain circumstances I have… have to live in Madrid, but I must honestly say: it was a wonderful time, which in turn made life here somewhat possible. I’m extremely grateful and I’m happy to be back. I was able to find my freedom a little more there than was possible here,” says Amalia, who could no longer live in the Netherlands due to serious threats.

“She is very independent and smart. It was a loss that she was not there, but you also have to give a child freedom and wings. Every time she left was It with a tearbut also with a smile,” Máxima responds.

“To be able to celebrate your birthday with your own family is the most beautiful thing,” says King Willem-Alexander, about the fact that his three daughters are also present at the celebration this year.

The anti-monarchist movement Republic demonstrates along the route of the royal family in Emmen. A group of about thirty people stand in a separate demonstration area and hold up a large scoreboard. It shows the number of signatures collected for a petition calling for a significant salary cut for the king.

When the royal family passed by, there were boos and the demonstrators shouted, among other things, ‘Stop the monarchy‘. They also held up signs with texts such as ‘Willem the last’, ‘Never blue envelopes’, and ‘Willem-Alexander, do you really want to do this to your daughter?’.

The king waved in the direction of the demonstrators, but did not stop. The rest of the family also moved on.

Princess Amalia was accidentally buried under confetti.

After the Drenthe brain teasers, it is now time for something physical challenge. Prince Pieter-Christiaan is already playing handball. The king and his family are going to play a game of shuffleboard, led by ‘shul queen’ Elly Mensen.

Also in the rest of the country Royal day celebrated.

Birthday boy Laura stood along the route and hoped for a kiss from the king. She wrote that on a large banner, and that attracted the attention of fellow birthday boy Willem-Alexander. “I asked him first to give me a kiss on the cheek, but he thought that was too bad… too much. So I say: at least on my hand. Then he looked for a moment like: should I do it? Then I really got that kiss on my hand. He did it, so my day can’t be ruined anymore.”

The royal family’s knowledge of the Drenthe region is tested. King Willem-Alexander is one of the team captains, as are Queen Máxima, Crown Princess Amalia and Princess Laurentien. It is hoped that he wins, because at the Jeugdjournaal his wife, Queen Máxima, revealed the week that the king doesn’t like losing.

Princess Amalia has ‘extremely good‘ read up on the province in order to be well prepared for the game, she joked. Máxima seems to be cheating for a moment by looking something up on her phone, but she says that she used the calculator on her mobile phone. Yes Yes… Ultimately, the queen wins together with Prince Bernhard, Princess Annette and Princess Aimée won the quiz about Drenthe on King’s Day.

The four teams were asked questions about Drenthe, ranging from football and the circuit in Assen to cycling routes and agriculture.

This is what the Oranges are wearing today:

is doing well Eloise of Orange in New York. Her parents Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien announced this on King’s Day.

21-year-old Eloise is currently in the United States for her internship. “Much further than Emmen,” said Laurentien, who finds it special that many people say that Emmen is so far away. “It she is doing very wellshe enjoys and she enjoys her internship, she is very pleased with it.”

Prince Constantijn announced that he and Laurentien will ‘may’ visit their daughter soon. “First here,” they said as the couple continued their route through Emmen.

Jetta Klijnsma, the king’s commissioner in Drenthe, cycles the route that the royal family takes. She was born with a spastic leg and is therefore slightly disabled. To be mobile, she has a tricycle.

Protesters from Extinction Rebellion (XR) arrived just after 12 noon on Saturday A10 near the former ING office in Amsterdam. The police tried to stop the blockade to no avail. There are about a hundred demonstrators, some of them decked out in orange.

The action group demands that ING immediately stop financing the fossil industry. The Amsterdam triangle (mayor, police and justice) called the blockade on King’s Day irresponsible in advance and has banned the action. Read more here.

Eating croquettes‘doodling’ and taking selfies: this is what is happening now in Emmen.

Princess Amalia was injured during her trip along the King’s Day route accidentally buried under a mountain of orange ribbons. The decoration fluttered through the air, but ended up in a clump on top of the 20-year-old princess.

Amalia’s sister Alexia immediately rushed to help her. The personal assistant of the princesses and the king’s grand mistress also immediately came to Amalia’s aid.

The princess could laugh himself about the incident. She then continued the tour past the audience and the Emmen folk singer Jannes.

A small impression of the royal walk by Emmen.

Singer Jannes is now performing. He previously said he hoped that the party would get going in Emmen. ,,Yes, here’s the party, this is where it has to happen. I would like to do everything I can to ensure that that happens and that the party starts here,” Jannes told the NOS reporter. The singer said that he will soon perform his hits I am Jannes and Eleonora for the king. will sing.

Jannes Wolters, as his full name is, also hopes that the king will understand that the motto in Drenthe is ‘just act normal, then you are acting crazy enough’. “Sobriety, the down-to-earth Drent and above all, remain yourself,” the singer answers when asked how the people in Emmen would describe themselves. “We are a very beautiful municipality with all the trimmings and we are very proud that our king is coming here.”

“The atmosphere is fantastic, we are happy to be there,” says Princess Amalia. She asks students in Emmen what it is like to study there, and she is asked in return how she experiences studying. “It’s hard to study, but very rewarding interesting all.”

They don’t eat them themselves (now), but King Willem-Alexander and the other members of the family do treat people along the route to tompouces.