They were apologies for eternity, the remorseful words of King Willem-Alexander, spoken to us from the DNA salon of Huis ten Bosch palace.
They show how much he, Queen Máxima next to him and their advisers are in the wings in their stomachs with the public grumbling about the royal autumn holidays. How they considered a grand gesture necessary, in order not to tilt that carefully sculpted image of the royal couple even further.
But the royal bowing down is also a trend break with Willem-Alexander’s predecessors and makes him a human king, who talks in a speech on YouTube about his own fallibility. Vulnerable, almost ordinary.
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