Duc_et_Pair
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In the Netherlands: Máxima, Máxima, Máxima, Máxima........., Máxima......., and then oma Bea and the AAA-princesses......, and somewhere far behind: The King.
Two days ago, during the photoshoot in Lech am Arlberg (Austria) the national and international media were only interested in Máxima, Máxima, Máxima and the Princesses. The Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung only had pictures with the Queen, Princess Beatrix and the three AAA-princesses. Asked about the King, the reporter said: "Our readers have no interest in the King, they want Máxima". The German magazine Bunte stated the same: "Our readers are only interested in Queen Máxima and her daughters, not in King Willem-Alexander".
It tells a lot about the superficiality of the media. At the other hand I have to add that Kronen Zeitung, Bild and Bunte are very much what we call "Boulevard Press". So even being a spot- and faultless King sadly will not bring someone into Place Numero Uno. Luckily for Máxima the King -to whom she owes e-ve-ry-thing of her glamorous life- seems to beam of pride when the floodlights are all on "his four ladies". It seems -for an example- that the Prince of Wales had difficulties to cope with the immense popularity of his first spouse. He felt that all what he did with the Prince's Trust, his charities, his serious activities were all bulldozered away only to see what his wife was wearing that day, how her hair was and what jewels she was wearing.
It is also the common public: at the Third Tuesday of September the Dutch royal family travels in splendid carriages, with colourful ceremonial cortège, to thee Hall of Knights. The public alongside the route is really anticipating at which side of the carriage (then Princess) now Queen Máxima will be seated, so that they can wave to her and make good pictures....
Two days ago, during the photoshoot in Lech am Arlberg (Austria) the national and international media were only interested in Máxima, Máxima, Máxima and the Princesses. The Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung only had pictures with the Queen, Princess Beatrix and the three AAA-princesses. Asked about the King, the reporter said: "Our readers have no interest in the King, they want Máxima". The German magazine Bunte stated the same: "Our readers are only interested in Queen Máxima and her daughters, not in King Willem-Alexander".
It tells a lot about the superficiality of the media. At the other hand I have to add that Kronen Zeitung, Bild and Bunte are very much what we call "Boulevard Press". So even being a spot- and faultless King sadly will not bring someone into Place Numero Uno. Luckily for Máxima the King -to whom she owes e-ve-ry-thing of her glamorous life- seems to beam of pride when the floodlights are all on "his four ladies". It seems -for an example- that the Prince of Wales had difficulties to cope with the immense popularity of his first spouse. He felt that all what he did with the Prince's Trust, his charities, his serious activities were all bulldozered away only to see what his wife was wearing that day, how her hair was and what jewels she was wearing.
It is also the common public: at the Third Tuesday of September the Dutch royal family travels in splendid carriages, with colourful ceremonial cortège, to thee Hall of Knights. The public alongside the route is really anticipating at which side of the carriage (then Princess) now Queen Máxima will be seated, so that they can wave to her and make good pictures....