“We were here when Willem-Alexander and Maxima got married and what you remember is that you were there - you forget how early you had to get up and how tired you were.” I was a very small girl when Beatrix came to the throne so this is the first change in the monarchy I can really experience,” she said. to travel to Amsterdam and sat on a camping stool close to the Royal Palace wearing an orange cowboy hat and tiara. The 46-year-old king’s popular Argentine-born wife became Queen Maxima and their eldest of three daughters, Catharina-Amalia, who attended the ceremony wearing a yellow dress, became Princess of Orange and first in line to the throne.Įls Nederstigt, 38, said she got up at 5:30 a.m. The former queen becomes Princess Beatrix and her son becomes the first Dutch king since Willem III died in 1890. We are intensely, intensely grateful to you,” the new king said. “Dear mother, today you relinquished the throne. Moments later, in a striking symbol of the generational shift, she left the balcony and King Willem-Alexander, his wife and three daughters - the children in matching yellow dresses and headbands - waved to the crowd. “I am happy and grateful to introduce to you your new king, Willem-Alexander,” she told the cheering crowd, which chanted: “Bea bedankt” (“Thanks Bea.”) King Willem-Alexander gripped his mother’s hand and looked briefly into her eyes after they both signed the abdication document in the Royal Palace on downtown Amsterdam’s Dam Square.īeatrix looked close to tears as she then appeared on a balcony overlooking some 20,000 of her subjects. Millions more were expected to watch on television. Visibly emotional, the much-loved Beatrix ended her reign in a nationally televised signing ceremony as thousands of orange-clad people cheered outside.
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