Beatrix a little less orange |
Queen Beatrix from Orange! |
Now Queen Beatrix van Oranje-Nassau used to be married to Prince Claus, but he passed away. Our Crown Prince is Prince Willem-Alexander van Oranje-Nassau
Well this is NOT a holiday for chocolate, but just a very fun day to be in the Netherlands, and to taste a little ''orange'' culture!
Why orange you ask? Have you ever seen Dutch people in sports? Or at anything nationalistic for Holland?
If you said yes, you know they are all ORANGE! If you said no, Ive got some pictures for you!
World Cup 2010 (the Bavaria Babes who were arrested for sneak-marketing of a diffrent beer-brand (Bavaria) then the official sponsor (Heineken) |
Queensday crowd (they are orange if you did not notice) |
The Orange Legion (the people) never lets the Lion (Holland) stand alone! |
Miss Holland! |
The picture explains itself |
Well the answer to ALL of Hollands nationalistic events are covered in orange is because of...
Our Royal Family!
Their last name is ''van Oranje-Nassau'' (translates to ''from Orange-Nassau''). The Royal Family is so very dutch, that dutch people don't even notice it anymore, that there aren't a lot of europe countries with a royal family (France is very proud they killed every last one). On the other hand, you might notice that the United Kingdom's Royal Family recently had a wedding...
So I hope to educate the people of blogger, the people roaming the internets, that Holland DOES have a Royal Family, and their last name!
So maybe if you ever wanted to go to Holland, plan your trip for next year April 30st, and taste the REAL Dutch culture (and not that windmill stuff)
The next time you see a crowd of crazy orange people, you can almost certainly say: They are from Holland!
Very Dutch: Orange + Tulips! |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninginnedag
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-Chocotaster
Nou, wat mooie foto's zo kleurrijk en vol leven ; ******
ReplyDeleteAlexander is een prachtig gedaan;)
Zeer mooi en honderd jaar voor de Koningin; *
wow, happy Queens Day then.
ReplyDeleteI have been hearing about queens day all day! :D
ReplyDeleteI want chocohunks!
ReplyDeleteah the weather!
ReplyDeleteQueens day looks fun...hope you're having a great time (:
I never knew this.
ReplyDeleteI'd prefer orang over red/white/blue...
never really put the orange 'n netherlands together ... i guess the same as us 'n red.
ReplyDeletethere is a disturbing lack of chocolate in this post
ReplyDeletegood info, and NICE colorful pics lol...lots of orange
ReplyDeleteMOAR ORANGE CHICKS.. That was pretty nice to know, though.
ReplyDeleteugh, Royal families.... no more. a3
ReplyDeleteQueen Beatrix van Oranje-Nassau...that is one hell of a vantastic name...love it;)
ReplyDeletenice pics, i heard japan also has a royal family
ReplyDeleteI have never seen so much orange. I did know there was a royal family though.
ReplyDeleteP.S I drew that cake you wanted :P
that old lady is fugly
ReplyDeleteNederlanders are indeed very blessed. happy queens day! :D
ReplyDeletehot chicks in europe man. seriously
ReplyDeleteawesome
ReplyDeleteThe Royal Family is so very dutch.... really?
ReplyDelete@SOMS well in reality prince Claus was a german, and the current princess Maximá is argentinian....
ReplyDeleteQueens day huh chocolate day is every day then?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletehappy queens day by the way! :)
ReplyDeleteQueens day!
ReplyDeletepff this looks insane, wish we would have something like that :<
ReplyDeletevery nice
ReplyDeleteHooray for protestants... I mean hooray for orange!
ReplyDeletei never knew that. that looks like a beautiful carriage
ReplyDeletefollowed
gekke hollanders xD
ReplyDeleteHaha, I have to agree with France on this one!
ReplyDeleteSooo much orange..
ReplyDeleteNever knew about Holland and their Orange and Royal Family. I'll keep that in mind, if I every see a group dressed in orange tho! hehe. good post
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