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Old 08-12-2021, 08:38 AM #1
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Dutch crown princess Amalia celebrates her 18th birthday on Tuesday, with a flurry of coverage in all the Dutch papers.

Amalia, who left school this summer with top grades, is currently having a gap year but plans to go to university, reportedly to study ‘something international or something to do with economics’ in 2022.

The princess will also be sworn in as a member of the Raad van State, the government’s most senior advisory group, on Wednesday. Like her father, king Willem-Alexander, Amalia will not have voting rights but she will give a speech in the December 8 ceremony.

The princess has already said she will not make use of her right to vote in the Dutch elections, like her father and grandmother. And earlier this year, she also sent a hand-written note to prime minister Mark Rutte, saying she did not wish to make use of her €1.6m a year allowance until she takes up royal duties.

Accepting the money, she said, would make her feel ‘uncomfortable’ as long as she did little in return ‘and that other students face far more difficulties, especially in the coronavirus era’.

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RTL Nieuws points out that if her father dies, Amalia will become queen, even though she told comedian Claudia de Breij that she would ask her mother to do the job for a few years. ‘More than that, I have told my father to keep eating healthily and do lots of sport,’ De Breij quoted Amalia as saying in a new book about her life.

In the book, the princess also revealed that she talked to a psychologist when she was younger and still does whenever she feels the need.

‘I don’t think it’s a taboo, and I don’t mind talking about it in public,’ she said. ‘It’s completely normal to talk to a professional, particularly in the light of what happened to my aunt,’ she said referring to the suicide of her mother’s younger sister Inès.

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Republican Floris Müller told the NRC that he understood Amalia is a ‘very clever girl’.

‘Do something with it then,’ he said, when asked what advice he would give the crown princess. ‘Make your own choices. Go into politics or industry. What would she really like to do, and where are her ambitions?’

The NRC points out that Amalia herself said in 2019 that she does not want to become a ‘showbiz version’ of herself.

It also highlights an interview given by Willem-Alexander in which he said he feels the responsibility to ‘prepare her as well as possible, to help her get to know herself as well as possible… to be as complete a person as possible.’

The king said that before his inauguration, ‘her first question to me was: how many years are you going to do it? More like: then I can already write it in my diary.’




two new special birthday portraits released as well

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/1...dia-spotlight/
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todays ceremony takes place in the ballroom of Palace Kneuterdijk in The Hague

highlight is Amalia's speech, but there also will be speeches by RvS president King Willem Alexander and RvS vice president Thom de Graaf who will speak to everyone present, among the people who will be there is Queen Maxima also a member of the RvS



someone who was unable to attend Amalia's birthday yesterday and this event today is former queen Princess Beatrix who was tested positive for covid after returning from a work trip to Curacao despite having had her booster jab recently
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ok good speech from Amalia, she said she is definitely going to be quite involved in more meetings of the RvS, wants to learn a lot more as well in terms of politics, and her first duties will be next year in september with Prinsjesdag 2022

and likely also next year at remembrance day of the 4th of May
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