While her parents were in London at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II last weekend, it became known that the Dutch Crown Princess is being threatened by a criminal organization and that the Dutch police have asked the Princess of Orange to give up her studies in Amsterdam and go home. to return because she fears the mafia is plotting a kidnapping. Still, the 18-year-old made her debut on Tuesday on the so-called Prinsjesdag and she attended the budget speech of her father Willem-Alexander for the first time.
Authorities in the Netherlands have reportedly stepped up security measures to protect 18-year-old Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia, who left her parents’ royal residence in The Hague a few weeks ago to study in Amsterdam.
leave the student apartment
The heir apparent left her student house and returned to the royal palace Huis Ten Bosch, where she is guarded by the Dutch security service, according to De Telegraaf.
The teenage princess’s safety is threatened by nefarious schemes by the infamous “Mocro Mafia” – a branch of the Moroccan mafia operating in the Netherlands and believed to control about a third of all cocaine trafficking in Europe.
For the first time on Prince’s Day
It is unclear whether the princess will continue her studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she was enrolled earlier this month at the Faculty of Political Science, Psychology, Law and Economics, but it is suspected that she will continue her studies remotely.
Despite the threat, the crown princess was officially present for the first time on Prinsjesdag in The Hague on Tuesday. On this important day for Dutch politics, when the parliamentary year begins, King Willem-Alexander will give a speech.
King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Amalia rode in a glass coach from the palace to the royal city theater. Thousands of people – many dressed in orange – lined the streets of The Hague, cheering the royal family. Due to a major renovation of the government complex, the ceremony could not take place as usual in the historic knight’s hall. There were also protests and booing along the way.
The reason: Dozens of farmers protested the government’s planned environmental regulations. After the speech from the throne, the royal family appeared on the balcony of Noordeinde Palace and waved to the spectators. Boos drowned out the cheers there too.
hat and evening dress
Like Princess Kate’s daughter, Princess Charlotte, at the funeral of her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom, Crown Princess Amalia wore a hat for the first time on an official occasion on Budget Day. She borrowed it from her mother Maxima.
It is a design by Fabienne Delvigne that she wore as an accessory to a long dark green voile evening dress.
More and more official data
Since she celebrated her 18th birthday in December 2021, Crown Princess Amalia has been increasingly attending her parents’ official appointments.
As an adult, the Crown Princess has the right to succeed her father to the throne. This means that the Princess of Orange is also a member of the Council of State, a state body that advises the government.
Her move to Amsterdam should give her more freedom. “After all, she is an 18-year-old girl who should be free to go somewhere unannounced,” says Dutch nobility expert Rick Evers. Her father Willem-Alexander reported at the time that as a student he liked to try to shake off his bodyguards. For the young heir to the throne, this has probably stopped for the time being. At the beginning of next year she will visit the Caribbean areas of the Kingdom with her parents.
Source: Krone
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