The Dutch abdication (a 100 things #7)
Tonight, Queen Beatrix announced that she is abdicating and that her son, Willem-Alexander, is taking over the throne. The abdication will be final on April 30, The Queen’s Day, and Willem-Alexander...
View ArticleThe Dutch succession (100 things #8)
The announcement last night that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is abdicating on April 30 is also changing things further down in the line. Unlike the most lines of succession, the Dutch line of...
View ArticleThe abdication and the investiture
I didn’t take the day off for the Cambridge wedding, but I’m enough of a royal watcher still to take today off at work and spend the day in front of the television set. I’m fortunate enough as a royal...
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