In any case, it makes for a hilarious anecdote. Although it is now twenty years ago, the singer can still kick himself that he did not recognize the Dutch crown prince at a gas station in the Belgian municipality of Rumst.
At the time he was having a drink at night when he saw ‘four cool Dutchmen’ pass by. He thought he knew one of them: “He looked like someone from the production house Endemol, that… Big Brother made. I then went to have a chat and that was very nice.”
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When Sam saw Willem-Alexander on TV weeks later, the penny dropped. He couldn’t believe he was talking to the Prince of the Netherlands. “I was ashamed, because I was whining against that man. What must he have thought of me? But look, he was a very sympathetic man.” There has been no meeting since then. “He gets stuck with a big arc around me.”
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