Your Van Vollenhoven cousins - whom nobody knows outside readers of the tabloids or Quote 500 - have absolutely no role in todays monarchy besides being way down on the reserve list of succession.
Correct me if I am wrong but I also do not get the impression you all meet in private very regularly, if ever. And on the 27th April they are invited as part of the big warm fuzzy royal family? It all comes across as a bit hypocritical and fake.
You basically invite your cousins to put up a royal act for 3 hours straight before they get in their cars and drive back to their mondaine non-royal lives. Is there anything more silly really?
Why on earth are your cousins still going along with this charade? To be called prince and princess and being adored by small children who have no idea who they are, for a few hours a year?
When Beatrix became monarch and all the cousins were still young and in line to the throne I understood why they joined in. The celebrations and program was catered to young kids. But come on you are all adults now - even the Kings children are young adults! People lining the routes just take pictures of and with them and then have to google who they were...
Maybe its time for a change Your Majesty. It was fun while it lasted but times have changed. Focus on the core royal family. Sorry to break the news to your cousins but they are utterly irrelevant for the monarchy in 2023.
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