Dutch royal family celebrate King’s Day
The Dutch royal family faced boos and jeers from crowds during a national holiday parade – led by Extinction Rebellion.
Every year, the Netherlands celebrates Prince’s Day, but this year the festivities coincided with an action by climate change activism group Extinction Rebellion.
Yesterday (September 19), King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and their children took part in a parade in the Hague for the traditional “Prinsjesdag”.
Each year, the Dutch royal family parade through the streets in a glass carriage for Prince’s Day, the official opening of Parliament. The King gives a speech at the Royal Theatre containing the government’s key plans for the year ahead.
Along the parade route, protestors holding whistles and booing could be heard through the crowd, holding inverted national flags and signs that read “how long does it remain comfortable to look away?”.
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The day of festivities was an opportunity for Extinction Rebellion, with nearly 200 activists blocking a section of the A12 motorway.
The environmental group launched a series of daily actions on September 9 to oppose subsidies given by the Dutch government to the fossil fuel industry.
King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima, Princesses Amalia and Alexia, Prince Constantin and Princess Laurentien later went to the balcony at Noordeinde Palace to wave to the crowd, being greeted again with a whistling and booing protest.
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Extinction Rebellion Nederland said on X (formerly Twitter): “€39.7bn to €46.4bn of fossil subsidies annually, a 29-page inventory and numerous annexes, but NO plan to stop. We are very disappointed.
“While in Libya, the victims of the latest climate disaster are buried in mass graves, this government chooses to continue subsidising the fossil industry by billions. This makes the Dutch government complicit in mass murder.
“The government considers the fossil economy more important than the climate problem and puts vested interests above climate chaos in the Global South.”
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