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Posted by TMN Raugravine
on July 17, 2012, 2:06 pm, in reply to "Re: foundations"
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Very sensible. Just like the Dutch.
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: The gifts are very diverse. At almost every
: visit, be it a State Visit, an official
: visit, a working visit or even a private
: visit, gifts are offered. This varies from a
: commemorative book to a nice crystal vase,
: from a set of silver items to a ring with
: "dust from space" (a Dutch
: astronaut gave it). During royal weddings
: gigantic loads of gifts are delivered at the
: palace, varying from a complete dinner set
: for 100 people to an extended set of damast
: linen, from specially re-purchased historic
: items to newly created art sculptures. The
: amount is often unbelievable. And maybe also
: jewels, although it looks like the Dutch
: royals prefer less ostentatious gifts.
:
: I think the two foundations were set up as
: result of the deaths of Queen Juliana and
: Prince Bernhard in 2004. A massive amount of
: never-ending items left the depôts of the
: royal residences, had to be classified,
: valued, catalogued, stored. There were four
: daughters who could inherit from Queen
: Juliana and six daughters who could inherit
: from Prince Bernhard. After all the dividing
: and distributing, still an immense amount of
: goods was left, amongst these surprisingly
: expensive and beautiful gold-, silver-,
: crystal- and porcelain ware, antique
: furniture, paintings, objets d'art and name
: these all. These were auctioned for the
: benefit of charities chosen by the four
: daughters.
:
: I have the idea that by creating these two
: foundations, the problem "what to do
: when royal X or royal Y dies" is
: tackled. Everything is placed in the
: ownership of a Foundation and this means
: that as long as the Foundation exists, the
: (future) bearer of the Crown and/or his
: House has the usufruct and the pleasure of
: all these gifts.
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