Re: No tiara's for the other Royal Ladies Archived Message
Posted by Henri M  on April 26, 2013, 6:21 pm, in reply to "Re: No tiara's for the other Royal Ladies" |
You are mentioning the UK. I haven't seen diadem events at all during the Diamond Jubilee, during the wedding festivities for the Duke of Cambridge, during the wedding festivities for the Prince of Wales, during the Golden Jubilee and name them all. Or did I miss something? By the way, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will not attend the State Visit you mentioned because they will be in Amsterdam then...
You complain about the use of the boat from the Amsterdam Port Authority. That boat will be nicely decorated by the Dutch Flower Agency and the King and Queen can enjoy the pageant better visible than in the royal barge. Yes, I preferred that elegant barge but allez... the boat which will be used now is much better than the über-Edelkitsch re-invention of Noah's Ark on which the poor British royals had to endure the cold and the rain during the Thames pageant.
I have always been critical on Amsterdam. But from what I have seen on public decorations, the spic-and-span venues (the restored palace, the restored Rijksmuseum, the entirely re-decorated Nieuwe Kerk) and in comparison with 1980, I can only utter compliments. The wedding in 2002 and the Jubilee 2005 have shown that Amsterdam cán do it with charm and style.
Today I cycled to office and passed a primary school. The flag with orange pennant was waving. Hundreds of children were arriving, in orange, with crowns, tiaras, orange wigs. 1.3 million primary school kids got a free breakfast (The King's Breakfast) and had a nationwide sports- and activities day (The King's Games). All cheer and fun around me. And you know what? I got the feeling the Oranges are masters in public relations, in 'branding' themselves as a trade mark (by unconsciously brainwashing everyone with an orange tsunami) and by repositioning the monarchy less "high cultured white elitist Amsterdam canal belt avantgarde leftist" as it has become under Queen Beatrix.
At the same time we will have a glamorous Queen. The proceedings on 30 April will be more stylish than in 1980 (a dancing Erica Terpstra in the Citizen's Hall, the Moses Chamber without the splendid huge silver chandeliers and poorly lit for TV, an evening on a cold and wet ferry watching some amateur fireworks in between the lifeboats, the city looking lik Aleppo anno 2013). I can assure you: it will be great days and with royal splendour. With or without diadems. Have you seen the program Andere Tijden, this week, looking back on 1980? The mobs were only a stone throw away from storming the Nieuwe Kerk! The guests had nó idea what all those sounds were outside. John, in that perspective, it will always be better than the Investiture 1980. That was a day to forget. And maybe the new Queen will surprise us with long not seen items. The Mellerio ruby corsage de devant and the diamond-and-rubies encrusted fan? Queen Emma's sparkling diamond corsage? The enormous diamond-and-sapphire bow brooch from Princess Amalia of the Netherlands born Duchess von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach? Etc. Etc. Etc. 
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: O my, hats after all: horrible!
: I do remember Margriet with that immense hat
: at her sisters 1980-Inauguration: like an
: UFO had landed on the back of her head...
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: I never expected the female royal guests to
: wear a tiara at the investiture though.
: Dresscodes tend to "never go up"
: through the decades.
: I will already be glad when royal woman will
: still be wearing floorlong dresses (as done
: in 1980)...
: But I fear that also this custom might be
: abandoned.
: The Dutch Royal family being the only royal
: family in the world still familiar with this
: concept (Dresscode-Prinsjesdag).
:
: I realy will be surprised (and ofcourse over
: the moon) when Maxima will be wearing a
: (substantial) Tiara.
: I even fear we might not see tiaras at
: all...
: Certainly not on that little boat on Het IJ
: so neither for the reception in het
: Muziekgebouw.
: Maybe, just maybe (very small change and not
: like Beatrix at all) we might see some
: glitter at the 29th for her farewell-diner
: in Het RijksMuseum, but don't count on it...
: I think the images in the coming weeks from
: Britain will certainly outshine the images
: from Amsterdam!
: With in London a fullblown statevisit (with
: the beautiful carriages and the mounted
: horse guards) and the Statediner at
: Buckingham Palace, the State-Opening of
: Parliament with again carriages and the
: regalia, the bejewelled Queen and also
: Charles and Camilla in attendance...
: I mean more royal then that, things will
: certainly never be in Holland
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