Princess Amalia will turn 18 on Tuesday. Time to take a closer look at her most striking and funny statements in those eighteen years.
- “I can’t judge that yet, because I haven’t seen everything yet”
That was Amalia’s answer to Dionne Stax when the NOS presenter asked her what she thought was the best part of King’s Day 2016.
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- “We are being disinherited today.”
Amalia and a good friend shouted this to each other in the wings during the performance of the musical they wrote Christmas Monastery. Her good friend played a woman in high red patent boots and poledance during one song. Amalia watched her grandmother, Princess Beatrix, raise her eyebrows.
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- “We’re not competitive, we just don’t want to lose.”
The Oranges play a lot of games together at home in Huis ten Bosch Palace and according to Amalia they are quite fanatical.
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- “I’m a stripper at night.”
This is how she joked to Claudia de Breij during their conversations for the book Amalia when Claudia pointed out to the princess of Orange that she had a lot of cash in the house.
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- “For me it is calming down. I now enjoy my childhood and friends around me.”
During King’s Day 2021, she was asked how Amalia is preparing for her eighteenth birthday and the tasks that come with it.
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- “Where should I look? I don’t have eight eyes.”
Amalia proclaimed this in 2013. The Oranges then boarded the train at Amsterdam Central Station towards the Austrian Lech. The photographers present kept calling her name.
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- “At times unreal to realize that this is really my life now.”
Amalia was fifteen when she spoke extensively to the media for the first time during King’s Day 2019 in Amersfoort. She gave an insight into how she sees her position as crown princess.
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- “All those people were staring at me like I had a goldfish on my head.”
This is what she says in the book Amalia by Claudia de Breij about her father’s inauguration in 2013. At that moment she realized that this is also her future.
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“Máxima occasionally raised an eyebrow at Amalia’s use of language”
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- “I find that uncomfortable as long as I can offer little in return and other students have it so much harder, especially in this uncertain corona time.”
Amalia wrote this in the letter to Mark Rutte in which she waives her allowance. From the age of eighteen, Amalia is entitled to an allowance of 296,000 euros per year, plus 1,338,000 euros for private staff and expenses, but this will be refunded during her studies.
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