{"id":123634,"date":"2024-01-11T06:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T06:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/?p=123634"},"modified":"2024-01-11T06:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T06:27:57","slug":"the-netherlands-has-a-new-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/?p=123634","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands has a new King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Netherlands has a new King\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJdZY3gvgAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/ The new Dutch King Willem-Alexander has been sworn in at a ceremony in Amsterdam&#8217;s Nieuwe Kerk.<\/p>\n<p>Willem Alexander becomes the first king of the Netherlands in more than 120 years, ascending a throne largely stripped of political power but still invested with huge symbolic significance.<\/p>\n<p>With his wife Queen Maxima by his side, the King took the oath of allegiance. Outside the church, a massive crowd had gathered to follow the ceremony on giant screens.<\/p>\n<p>Like her mother and grandmother before her, Beatrix, who is 75, chose to abdicate after a 33-year reign, saying her son was ready and that it was time for the throne to be held by &#8220;a new generation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Beatrix is a very popular Queen with an estimated 8 out of 10 Dutch people in favour of maintaining the monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>The abdication takes place on Queen&#8217;s Day, a national holiday in The Netherlands, giving the Dutch an opportunity to gather and celebrate in what are rather morose economic times with the country back in recession.<\/p>\n<p>After her abdication, Queen Beatrix, the new King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Maxima, appeared on the balcony of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam to an enthusiastic orange-clad crowd of well-wishers.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a million people are estimated to have converged on Amsterdam for the event, including more than 10,000 police officers deployed in a massive security operation.<\/p>\n<p>The new King and Queen were joined by their three daughters, the eldest of whom, nine-year-old Catharina-Amalia, becomes Princess of Orange and heir to the throne.<\/p>\n<p>*Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown read our dossier on Europe&#8217;s monarchies*<\/p>\n<p>Find us on:<br \/>\nYoutube http:\/\/bit.ly\/zr3upY<br \/>\nFacebook http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.fans<br \/>\nTwitter http:\/\/twitter.com\/euronews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/ The new Dutch King Willem-Alexander has been sworn in at a ceremony in Amsterdam&#8217;s Nieuwe Kerk. Willem Alexander becomes the first king of the Netherlands in more than 120 years, ascending a throne largely stripped of political power but still invested with huge symbolic significance. With his wife Queen Maxima by his side, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8583],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123637,"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123634\/revisions\/123637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssprojects.biz\/newsBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}