Queen's Day Netherlands

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Queen's Day

***** Location: Netherlands
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

April 30

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands


from 2014 this will be
King's Day - 'Koningsdag' on 27 April.



April 29, 2013

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has made a farewell national address on the eve of her abdication and investiture of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander.
source : www.bbc.co.uk/news

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The Netherlands has been an independent monarchy since 16 March 1815, and has been governed by members of the House of Orange-Nassau since.

The first king of the Netherlands, from 1806 until 1810, was French. Napoleon installed his brother Louis Bonaparte as king over what was then called the Kingdom of Holland, a puppet state.

The present monarch, Queen Beatrix, has stated she will not abdicate in the near future, to allow Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife Princess Maxima to spend time with their family.

Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard; born 31 January 1938) has been the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 30 April 1980, when her mother, Queen Juliana, abdicated.

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orange tulips
colour the palace gardens
.. Queen's Day

Queen's Day
waving from windows
the Dutch flag

the Dutch
proud to be Dutch
Queen's Day

Queen's Day
time to watch the blackbirds
under our peach trees

Queen's Day
two more months
before summer

Ella Wagemakers, May 2009

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Queens’ Day --
an old dog sleeps quietly
in the midst of the din

This was in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
30 April is the day when the whole country celebrates its Queen and her mother and grandmother --
there is a lot of very loud music, and people go out to enjoy themselves in the streets. They are also allowed to build stalls to buy and sell whatever they wish in front of their houses. An old dog was sleeping peacefully behind one such stall, in the midst of a lot of loud music.

Isabelle Prondzynski
2010


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Queen Beatrix will abdicate on Queen's Day (a Dutch spring kigo), 30 April.
She was the one who granted me Dutch citizenship by royal decree way back in '93. She will never know what an impact that simple sheet of signed paper has meant to me since.

winter evening
our queen announces
her abdication

Ella Wagemakers
29 January 2013





Netherlands' Queen Beatrix announced Monday that she is ending her reign after 33 years and passing the crown to her eldest son, who has long been groomed to be king but who will have to work hard to match his mother's popularity.

"Responsibility for our country must now lie in the hands of a new generation," Beatrix, one of Europe's longest-serving monarchs, said in the simple, televised speech announcing her abdication.
source : mainichi.jp/english

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