Posted by Eleonore
on 21/10/2009, 12:10:16, in reply to "Princess Máxima"
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I think Mr. Lepeltak has a point when he describes the gap between how things are done in The Netherlands and in Argentina and that this will have its influence on Princess Maxima.
That she is not born in a democratic family is well-known and was one of the objections I had back in 2002 and which I posted here several times. Always to be laughed at 'But she is not like her father'.
Like I said in the previous posting, Maxima is used to a country where the rich show their money and where the rich don't have to take into account how things might be perceived by 'the people'. She however forgets that:
1. She is not in Argentina; and
2. Her position is solely because 'the people' allow her to be in this position. The monarch 'by the Grace of God' is, due to modern constitutions the monarch 'by the Grace of the People'.
Like you said, we don't know what goes one behind the Iron Gate of Eikenhorst so indeed, your guess is as good as mine (or that of Mr. Lepeltak) but if Princess Maxima will prove to be out-of-touch with the people, the consequences can be huge. Perhaps not immediately a 'revolution' but perhaps a palace revolution where the King is stripped from his constitutional position and where the Swedish model will be adopted.
Like we say in Dutch: het is koffiedik kijken.
--Previous Message--
: Your guess is as worth as mine. Last Sunday
: the former society-journalist 'Stan
: Huijgens' (Thomas Lepeltak) was extremely
: critical on Princess Máxima.
:
: He claims that he is informed about his
: sources that Princess Máxima is the real
: boss behind the screens and that she, so now
: and then, has made clear that lots of things
: will change in the Court Organization
: "when I'm is the boss".
:
: Thomas Lepeltak claims that Princess Máxima
: was raised in a family and a country with a
: giga-gap between the rich and the poor and
: also in a family with no democratic
: tradition. He claims that it is the Princess
: who has no any understanding for the
: feelings about the Machangulo Project. In
: her native homeland Argentina this would
: have been selbstverständlich for families
: in this position.
:
: So Thomas Lepeltak portrays the Princess as
: the driving force behind the Machangulo
: Project. And added to this that the Prince
: has the legendary stubborness which is so
: typical for the Oranges. But all Oranges
: were, last but not least, open for common
: sense. The Princess seems a difficult factor
: in this.
:
: But fact remains that in essence the couple
: has the right to purchase a family home and
: that they do nothing against the rules and
: that the Cabinet saw no grounds to block
: their plans. This means that in essence
: there is a mismatch to the own conviction of
: the princely couple and that of a 'feeling'
: in society.
:
:
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