Official Visit to the Dutch Caribbean: October 28-November 6, 2011


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The Royal party will fly to St.Maarten this morning (local time).

St.Maarten is one of the three autonomous countries within the Kingdom besides Aruba and Curacao.From here HM and TRH will also visit Saba and Statia which have both become dutch municipalities since October 10th 2010 by choice of the people on the islands.Alltho,there's some trouble with adjusting to the Dutch Laws that apply there now,and rules and norms,especially in regard to public spending,instead of spending the bulk in a couple mucho macho islanders,it is now checked by us how and by whom and most of all,too whom,all is spend....

There is a history of spending sprees and then looking towards us here for more dinero....Easy living Caribbean style....Except,there's one thing now,they can't do that any longer with a dutch comptroller on the islands....And that doesn't sit well in some circles there...Not that we care one hoot,they should stop nagging and begging like badly educated kids and grow up and take their responsibility...They have their big mouthes full of anything except of making sense....We took over their multi millions of debts as they were on the brink of bankruptcy due to idiot public spending as they have a hole instead of hands as they laughingly admit themselves...Yeah,well,though luck,the laughing stopped and they are monitored now to stay on the financial road....And now they have big mouthes over that bit...Oh,well,kids....

My favorite part of the Kingdom?No,certainly not!With the exception of Saba and St.Eustatius (Statia),that's heaven on earth...

...:whistling::p.

Some more from last night at Fort Amsterdam:

http://www.ppe-agency.com/show.php?zoektype=2&search=02-11-2011%20Fort
 
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Thanks for the infor as always lucien, I just love the Carribean so much and I love that the Queen goes there, it just makes it so special to me!
 
The floral prints look great on the Queen and Maxima. It seems like the Dutch royals are being welcomed everywhere they go on this trip. :flowers:

Oh certainly,the Royal Family is widely respected and loved in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom too.They only see "them" every other year,or after even longer gaps between visits.So when they do visit,the whole island is on its feet,which for St.Maarten includes the French part.Its split between France and The Netherlands since centuries...hence..but Sarko doesn't get this welcome...:p:p:D:D

Btw,the people on the islands of St.Maarten,Saba and St.Eustatius (where the RF will fly today) dont speak papiamento like they do on the ABC islands,the northern three all have english as their language...the caribbean version that is...grin...And dutch ofcourse,allthough not as widespread as on the ABC islands.
 
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How often do members of the Dutch Riyal Family make official visits to the former Antilles?
 
How often do members of the Dutch Riyal Family make official visits to the former Antilles?

Every couple of years,or whenever there is an occasion that requires the attendance of the Royals.Officially.Unofficially Members of the RF are known to spend some of their holidays there.With Pieter van Vollenhoven in the family they have a fully qualified diving instructor in the Family too,so,so he has taken many members of the RF and their friends with him to give them lessons,even Maximá is a qualified diver due to him.Pieter and Princess Margriet also spend a large part of their honeymoon on Curacao in 1967.

Completely left alone,no-one bothering them,there were no paperazzi at that time,not as we know them today and the islanders just winked at them and nicked their head when they passed.There is a very strong mutual bond of love between the islands and the Royal Family,as you might have seen some xamples of during the past 10 days.:)
 
HM and TRH are about to arrive at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport in a few minutes again...Wonderfull & succesfull tour!These 10 days flew by,alltho,three girls at the Eikenhorst might think different....grin...as did their mommy no doubt at times missing them.They arrive home just in time to bring them to school this morning,hah!;):)
 
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