According to outgoing Prime Minister Rutte, the fact that there were too many guests at the birthday party of Crown Princess Amalia shows “how we all struggle with the corona rules in the Netherlands from time to time”. “They’re people too, we all make mistakes,” he said when asked by reporters.
According to Rutte, the royal family has “made an incredible effort to arrange it neatly, but it was later found that it did not go well”. The advice is to receive no more than four guests at home, indoors or out. For the party 21 people were invited to the garden of Paleis Huis ten Bosch.
no pattern
The prime minister denied that the Oranges feel elevated above the people by not adhering to the rules. It is not the first time that the king’s family has broken the corona regulations. For example, last year they went on holiday to Greece, while the advice was not to travel. The family canceled the trip under pressure from the negative publicity.
Yet, according to Rutte, there is no pattern: “Those are way too heavy words.”
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