Just to be clear - I was referring to the degree of latitude which the Belgian parliament has. I knew about most of the Dutch procedure in a general way. Unlike the current case in Denmark, the creation of a new title still does involve all that procedural action from the Dutch parliament. Perhaps you should read what someone says instead of just selectively editing, distorting and misrepresenting.
Clearly you have no notion of how the law works in The Netherlands.
The parliament does not decide on the titles at all!
The government (with the King as Head of that government) send a bill to the parliament. A bill to approve a royal marriage. In that bill the titles of the children (if any) are also stated.
So when the government send the bill to the parliament for the marriage of Prince Maurits of Oranje-Nassau (who was never a Prince of the Netherlands mind you and only a prince on 'personal title'..as was stated in the bill send to parliament upon the marriage of his mother), it was stated that any potential children from the marriage to Marilène vd Broek would be Van Vollenhoven Van Lippe-Biesterfeld. This was discussed within the family and this name was suggested to the government who ran with it so to speak.
When Prince Constantijn wanted to get married to Laurentien Brinkhorst, the government, with Queen Beatrix as Head of said government, send in a bill stating that the titles of any future children would be Count/ Countess van Oranje-Nassau and Jonkheer/ Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg.
Again, this was most definitely discussed within the family and fully approved of by Queen Beatrix.
The parliament only voted on the bills to approve the marriage, the issue of titles/ family-name was decided by the government who had drafted the bill.
So to say that parliament decided on the titles with no input from the monarch is absolutely and totally false. The government added prospective titles/ family-names to the bill to approve the marriage and this was done after discussions within the family.
That became most clear when the bill for the marriage of the younger brother of Prince Maurits, Prince Bernhard (jr) was send to parliament. His future children would have Van Vollenhoven as surname, and not, like their cousins from uncle Maurits, Van Lippe Biesterfeld added to it. Prince Bernhard jr. explained why: his grandfather at first wanted to add his surname to the surname of his great-grandchildren Van Vollenhoven, but came back from this decision and the government obliged.
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