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King's Day 2025

Posted by karenl on April 28, 2025, 7:57 pm

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Posted by Hollie24 on April 28, 2025, 11:59 pm, in reply to "King's Day 2025"

It's always a joy to see Laurentien. Amalia looked very comfortable and relaxed. She's gained a lot of confidence.

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Posted by Karen on April 29, 2025, 12:08 pm, in reply to "King's Day 2025"

There has been some criticism that no Dutch Royals attended the Pope's funeral. Their attendence in Doetinchem started an hour later than planned so as not to clash with the funeral at the Vatican. But, still, King Charles, then Prince of Wales, 20 years ago in 2005 delayed his marriage to Camilla and attended the funeral of Pope Benedict XV as the representative of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Posted by Susan T on April 29, 2025, 12:16 pm, in reply to "Re: King's Day 2025"

And it only took several days to convince him to change the date after it was pointed out than many of his guests had decided that they would attend the Pope's funeral instead of his blessing ceremony.

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Posted by Karen on April 29, 2025, 1:22 pm, in reply to "Re: King's Day 2025"

True. But the clincher was when the then Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said he would be attending the Pope's funeral and he was due to bless the Wedding at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. Bit hard to have a Church Blessing for your marriage if the main officiant isn't there. Anyway Charles did attend and delay his marriage. Unlike the Dutch Royals who decided to go ahead with King's Day 2025.

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Posted by Susan T on April 29, 2025, 2:02 pm, in reply to "Re: King's Day 2025"

It's not really a like-with-like comparison, though. King's Day is a national holiday; Charles's second wedding was not.

King's Day is the equivalent of Trooping the Colour/the Sovereign's Birthday Parade. Would the UK cancel or reschedule that event because the date clashed with the Pope's funeral? Or the funeral of any foreign country's Head of State. I doubt it.

Re: King's Day 2025

Posted by Karen on April 29, 2025, 2:27 pm, in reply to "Re: King's Day 2025"

No we would not cancel an event like that, but...a representative (most likely the current Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh) would have been sent to the funeral and the event (whatever it was) would have been more subdued and possibly delayed for a couple of hours. The very least the Dutch Royals could have done was send someone to represent the King.

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