My fear is that these protests will become a regular phenomenon at every royal visit, at every State Visit, at every King's Day, at every Liberation Day, at every Princes' Day.
The protestors have a democratic right to voice their opinions. It is quite awkward to shout "traitor!" to the King while holding one of the oldest state flags in the world upside down, to show utterly contempt for the State. The very same State which the King would have "betrayed".
How more lunatic can one get it?
My parents were never ever a royalist, let alone an Orangist. (Also not republican b.t.w.: they could not care less, which is the general attitude). But they have seen how protesters whistled and booed the King, holding flags upside down, in front of Kneuterdijk Palace where Princess Beatrix was watching the royal cortège.
My absolutely not royalist and Orangist mother said: "I really was upset. I felt sadness for dear Princess Beatrix: she has always been my Queen. This was no protest anymore, this was pure insult". Of course I can not multiply my parents' feelings over society but I feel "the silent majority" is totally fed up with the desacralization of national symbols and the lunatic shouting.