At the age of 18, the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander is the subject of threats involving attempted kidnapping or assault. The portrait of the heiress, which is already at the heart of some controversy in the Netherlands.
On Thursday, October 13, the Royal Family of the Netherlands announced that Crown Princess Katarina-Amalia has been placed under high protection following threats of attack and kidnapping against her. The 18-year-old has left her home in Amsterdam to live in the Huis ten Bosch royal palace in The Hague and only goes out to university and is heavily escorted. The culprit is probably “Mocro Maffia”, the Dutch drug mafia, which recently also threatened Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborn.
The situation is “really very difficult,” King Willem-Alexander told a news conference during a state visit to Sweden. According to Queen Máxima, the threats surrounding the princess, who is in her first year of a BA in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE), are having a “tremendous impact” on her life. “He did not leave the house. That means he doesn’t live in Amsterdam, he can’t really go out. The consequences are very heavy for him,” said the sovereign visibly moved. “It’s not student life for him,” added the royal couple, who live in The Hague.
In public school
Katarina-Amalia from the Netherlands (her family just calls her Amalia) will turn 19 on December 7. Born in 2003, she is the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and older sister to Princesses Alexia (17) and Ariane (15). The young royal became first in line to the throne of the Netherlands when his father was crowned king on April 30, 2013. She was then given the title of Princess of Orange.
Destined to one day become Queen of the Netherlands, Amalia nevertheless grew up as a little girl like the others. The proof. his parents did not hesitate to send him to Bloemcampschool, a public elementary school with 400 students located in Wassenaar, a town about ten kilometers from The Hague. Unprecedented choice in Orange-Nassau house. Then, in 2015, he joined Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet, a private school in The Hague. It has a great reputation, it has 730 students and in 2007 it was named “Best Secondary School in the Netherlands”. And right on the bike, her backpack with purple flowers in a shiny pink basket hanging from the front, we see the teenager leave her parents’ house at that moment to join her new school.
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contradictions
Years have passed and since then young Amalia has been in the headlines of Dutch newspapers. Last year, he publicly apologized for inviting 21 people to his birthday party. And this despite the current health measures during the Covid period. At that time, the Dutch were still allowed to invite four people over the age of 13 to private gatherings.
But this is not the first controversy of the princess of Orange. In October 2020, Amalia and her family were forced to cut short a controversial stay in Greece under fire from critics. The rest of the nation took a dim view of these holidays due to the partial restriction imposed on it at the same time. By then the royal family had rushed back to the palace and offered their most sincere apologies to their subjects.
“I’m not ready to be queen”
In November 2021, Amalia from the Netherlands was once again talked about after indulging in several confidences transcribed into an authorized biography. He revealed that he did not feel fit to succeed his father, King Willem-Alexander. “I’m not ready to be queen,” she said. The heiress explained to the author Claudia de Bruges that if the latter, aged 54 and crowned in 2013, should die suddenly, she would ask her mother to temporarily replace her on the throne. “I told my father. “Keep eating healthy and exercising a lot,” he added without humor.
In this same book, the student pointed out that once sitting on the throne of the Netherlands, she could accept the possible abolition of the monarchy by republicans. “Of course, they have the opportunity to do it, and life will continue for me,” she said, who would prefer to become a singer. Words that were a bit of a challenge to the Dutch, who were destabilized by that lack of enthusiasm.
Violation of protocol
Six months ago, in June 2021, the daughter of Queen Máxima already allowed herself to break the royal protocol. And with good reason, in a letter to Mark Rutte, he waived the $2 million annual allowance he was supposed to receive starting at age 18. This recompense, moreover, was to be given to him before the coronation. “On December 7, 2021, I will turn 18 years old and, according to the law, I will receive an allowance,” he wrote. It makes me feel uncomfortable unless I do something about it, and while other students are having a much harder time, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.”
Katarina-Amalia added that she will return the $400,000 she has been entitled to so far and forfeit the remaining $1.3 million until she “generates an income” as the Princess of Orange. An unprecedented decision, he emphasized Keeper. This was the first time that a member of the Dutch royal family refused state compensation. Although the kingdom was ranked as the most expensive in Europe as part of a study published in 2012. This strong gesture of Princess Amalia, in any case, says a lot about the heads of this new generation of European crowns, who seek to somehow breathe wind. a monarchy in modernity and simplicity.
Source: Le Figaro
