Posted by Jay
on 21/10/2009, 12:56:27, in reply to "Re: Princess Máxima"
24.147.92.103
het is koffiedik kijken Is that similar to using tea leaves to see the future?
--Previous Message--
: 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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