The Royal Family is visiting my hometown

[MyOneAndOnly]

It's huge news and people are scrambling to get tickets to their public appearance. The prime minister has visited before but never the queen or the king.

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-m...for_dutch.html

[Sonic Johnny]

You know when referring to "the royal family" rather than "the dutch royal family" people usually mean the Carters.

[Order 66]

we're they wearing wooden shoes

[duovamp]

In for more pics of the mom

[duovamp]

Preferably in which she's wearing that heinous necklace.

[MyOneAndOnly]

no, but there's a factory nearby where they can buy a pair. it's not far from the DeZwaan Windmill

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by duovamp

Preferably in which she's wearing that heinous necklace.

nothing else?

[duovamp]

Her choice. I'm not a complete asshole. So long as she puts her tulips ON MY DICK.

[FoolofaTook]

that is wrong in a number of ways, friend.

[FoolofaTook]

u think the dad has pubes of a reddish hue?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

what's wrong with their smile?

[FoolofaTook]

their collective smile? the sum of their smiles? the essence of their smiles?

beautiful.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

penis smile

[vixnix]

The husband smiles like a smug adulterer.

[killtrocity]

nobdy care about canada

[The exploding boy]

[smashingjj]

cunts

[Trotskilicious]

so i crept into the palace
with a sponge and a rusty spanner

[MyOneAndOnly]

she said eh i know you and you cannot sing

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Order 66

we're they wearing wooden shoes

Were they wearing wooden shoes...


...on weed?

[MyOneAndOnly]

[MyOneAndOnly]

wow, they have the whole family on the peppermint tins now

these things are popular here. everyone calls them church mints

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

she said eh i know you and you cannot sing

thats nothing, you should hear me play pianoooooo

[Trotskilicious]

it looks fantastic to be rich, blonde and dutch doesnt it?

[buzzard]

The Queen has murderous military dictatorship blood coursing through her veins.

[MyOneAndOnly]

i give them a 50/50 chance of being able to build dikes tall enough to keep out the North sea.

how they gonna get the Amstel River to flow into the Sea when it's lower than the Ocean? Splain that!

[Trotskilicious]

levees on the coast will not be that complicated i don't think since it's not going to happen overnight

i imagine the river is already below water, how do they deal with it now

[MyOneAndOnly]

Thanks Obama!

[myosis]

why are they disguised as donald trump and a 60's flight attendant?

[MyOneAndOnly]

I didn't know she's Argentinian. But just looking at him it's obvs he's a "naughty" boy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch...he_Netherlands

Popular support has become more volatile over the last few years though, in the face of seeming improprieties by Prince Willem-Alexander and other members of the royal family during the economic crisis. Prince Willem-Alexander always had a reputation for being a "naughty boy" (he became popularly known as "Prins Pils" ("Prince Lager") after being photographed drinking beer as a student and once drove his car into a ditch while in university as well). Despite ongoing efforts to prepare for being king (including internships throughout society, military service and a very public interest in water management), he has made some clumsy choices from time to time that have negatively impacted his popularity. When he became engaged to Máxima Zorreguieta (daughter of Argentine junta member Jorge Zorreguieta), he publicly defended her by citing a letter describing her father's actions as harmless — the letter turned out to have been written by Jorge Rafael Videla. The matter was set aside when princess Máxima described her future husband's actions as "een beetje dom" ("a little bit dumb") in fluent Dutch during her first press conference (this also established her reputation as a charming young lady in the Netherlands). In 2009 Willem-Alexander and Máxima were in the news again for investing in a vacation resort in Mozambique. Even though there were good reasons to believe the project would have benefited the local populace greatly, the expenditure of money abroad during a crisis in a project involving some shady brokers did not sit well with the Dutch public. Also a purchase of an alternative vacation home in Argentina the same year was unpopular.

In and of themselves the incidents were not terrible, but they became public knowledge around the same time that other questions were being raised about the family finances of the Oranges. Even though the incidents caused only a slight drop in overall popular support (down to about 83%), they led to an increased support for moving to a fully ceremonial monarchy (around 43%), a freezing of the royal stipends (around 66%) or even a lowering of the stipends (about 33%) and removing the royal exemption on taxation (also around 40%).