Re: More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - close-up Archived Message
Posted by Henri M on May 25, 2013, 5:31 am, in reply to "Re: More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - close-up"
Thank you for the pictures. I wonder if those emerald earrings are a new addition? These visits (Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Denmark) were announced as "Introductory Visits" but in Dutch media it was more or less explained that this was a new policy by the King. There are already excellent relationships with countries as Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, etc. So why doing expensive two- or three day State Visits with everything included? It seems the new King want to use the instrument of full blown State Visits for new countries to introduce a whole fleet of Dutch businesses and oraganizations with him. This means: the booming economies. If this is true, (Dutch media can explain things quite differently than was initially meant), then we will not see State Visits to other European monarchies or the main countries like France or Germany. I can not imagine that is true. In the last years of Queen Beatrix the focus was already on states as Bahrain, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Singapore, Malaysia and far less on European countries (Luxembourg was the last). At least State Visits used to have three changes a day for Dutch royal ladies (morning engagements, afternoon engagements, evening engagements) and all with hats, gloves and the whole thing. During this Introductory Visit the Queen wore a hat, gloves, nice jewelry but that was it. No other outfits, no evening program. In this sense it was really boring.
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Message Thread:
- More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - Marianne May 24, 2013, 7:31 am
- Re: More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - PJ Kiser May 24, 2013, 12:55 pm
- Re: More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - close-up - Gert-Jan May 24, 2013, 2:02 pm
- Re: More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - close-up - karenl May 24, 2013, 11:29 pm
- Re: More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - close-up - PJ Kiser May 24, 2013, 11:31 pm
- More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg - Marianne May 25, 2013, 12:49 am
- Re: More emeralds: Dutch Royal visit Luxembourg, today - close-up - Henri M May 25, 2013, 5:31 am
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