#van vollenhoven dutch

[postcard-from-the-past]

Prince Maurits Willem Pieter Hendrik of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven

Dutch vintage postcard

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Princess Margriet and Prof. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven attend the 43rd edition of the NAF Ball in New York, which is organized annually by the Netherland-America Foundation (NAF). November 16, 2024.

The NAF is committed to promoting Dutch-American friendship, including in the cultural, scientific and educational fields. Princess Margriet and Professor Van Vollenhoven are the patron couple of the NAF.

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ October 22, 2005✵

Aimée Söhngen &  Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, July 5th:

Ahkal Mo’ Naab’ I, Mayan Ruler, 465

Mokjong of Goryeo, Korean Ruler, 980

Joan of the Tower, Queen of Scotland, 1321

Garzia de’ Medici, Tuscan Prince, 1325

Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, 1554

Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, Duchess of Parma, 1670

Peter III, King of Portugal, 1717

Louis I, King of Etruria, 1773

Ioann Konstantinovich, Russian Grand Duke, 1826

Eliane van Vollenhoven, Dutch Royal, 2009

[cornwallcambridge]

Happy birthday to Princess Margriet Francisca of the Netherlands! 

HRH was born in Ontario, Canada in 1943 to Princess Juliana, the future Queen, and Prince Bernhard. She was not born in her home country because the Dutch Royal Family were exiled during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. When Margriet was born, they had the maternity ward at the hospital temporarily declared extraterritorial so that she could be solely Dutch and therefore in the line of succession. She first went to the Netherlands two years later. Since then, Princess Margriet has been Vice President of the Netherlands Red Cross and President of the European Cultural Foundation. She is married to Pieter van Vollenhoven and together they have four kids: Prince Maurits, Prince Bernhard, Prince Pieter-Christiaan, and Prince Floris.

[koninklijkhuis]

Upon the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the marriage of Princess Margriet and Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven (10 January 1967), new pictures have been released by Koninklijk Huis of the couple with their four sons (and their spouses), and 11 grandchildren.

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Conscienceless/Gewetenloos

TLDR: Our monarchy is a complete joke. 

Friday was a rather interesting day in overall, which at first seemed unbearable due to the fact that I was unable to sleep and deadbeat tired, unfortunate enough to be tasked with the obligation of working. So what exactly did turn my day upside down? 

The well renowned exploiting slumlord of a prince, cousin of our current king going by the name Bernhard van Oranje-Nassau Van Vollenhoven, happened to walk on the same road where I was stationed at for my working duties. (He is wearing the blue Nike bag attempting to be incognito, typically wearing glasses and being without security personnel, fyi I opted to blur other people in the image bellow intentionally out of respect and privacy.)

Oh and what made my day? I made this royal scum cousin of the king anxious, as he was walking passed me. When slowly reaching for my smartphone inside my pocket to take a picture of him, it was almost as if he feared that I was reaching for something different. The look on his face was absolutely priceless, his eyes cowered in fear for an instant.

(Fun fact): Did you know that the emblem of the Dutch royal family is symbolized by lions, and that they even refer to themselves as Lions too with that absurd false sense of pride and ego? But tell me this, without security staff you’re lion costume doesn’t fit anymore now does it? So many people share that weak mentality around here, once they are alone they are fucking nothing, but with others they supposedly feel powerful... 

If anyone might wonder, why this outrageous and rather personal outburst/verbal post going after royalty you might ask? Well, it’s because Prince Bernard is quite the notorious and unscrupulous figure around here, and let me attempt to summarize that in a single sentence. Basically it is because: This fucking piece of shit owns around 600 homes and offices, around 102 homes in the capitol of Amsterdam alone, which is rather insane if you ask me. 

He and many others are simply exploiting parasites, known as one of the several factors, primary roots of corruption that are deeply ingrained in the housing sector. Which have deeply influenced the inflation and rising prices, this applies especially for starters on the market. 

As Bernard works with various cooperative schematics in ways involved, that are tied to the major shortages of houses in the Netherlands around 380.000 in total, being responsible for shifting the emphasize to be mainly placed on filthy rich housing sectors projects. Where there is very little room to none, for the creation of houses/apartments which can be affordable to incomes of lower and middle classed families. Making it nearly impossible for people, to even have a fair shot at the housing market in the capitol, or in other cities alike.

So I started to wonder after the prince left in his failed lowkey disguise, what his reasoning was for being in this area? It turned out that it was no mere coincidence that he was here, as the building next to my working site, was also selling an entire floor for a ridiculous €1.675.000 (see the images below) Imagine being such a shit person, that owning more then 100 houses in the capitol isn’t enough to satiate you’re bottomless greed, then you’re fucking beyond salvation.

Seriously, fuck the monarchy they can all go to hell! As they are nothing but gluttonous pigs down to the rotten core, living on the collective tax money of all its citizens, on each and every single product that you buy. If I wanted to I could devote more of my time and energy to expose, various other corruptive roots embedded in this country directly or indirectly related to our monarchy. 

Don’t even get me started about our current king Willem-Alexander, with one of his annual subsidy bills alone he receives around €5.000.000, see for yourself here for the source. Which was meant to be spent on a nature preservation site in De Veluwe. Where one of the old palaces of the monarchy is located, which make up for a very large sector in the area which are off limits to the public every year, and also have dire implications for the flora and fauna because of deliberate waste material (nitrogen) being dumped there. He simply chooses not to spent the money, on improving the conditions for nature or its infrastructure, ideas of innovation. I could also take a moment to talk about the corruptive art trading conduct of business, that the Dutch monarchy is involved in as well, hello Queen Maxima I see you :) 

The royal family in the Netherlands have been in vast decline in its overall popularity compared to other ages, now I wonder why that is? Obviously because of various scandals and the loss of credibility on so many counts... 

Last year for instance, during a previous lockdown our King gave this speech to the country by broadcasting on television, saying that no one is permitted/allowed to travel abroad, because of Covid-19 and guess what he did himself? Visiting one of the many private accommodations owned by the royal family this time on Greece, but when the media caught on to that he returned swiftly after losing face with his family, and made half assed apologies that weren’t sincere at heart. 

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09.09.2021 🇳🇱 Prof. dr. Pieter van Vollenhoven will open the FriendsLottery Open Monument Day 2021 in Weert on Thursday afternoon 9 September. Professor Van Vollenhoven is thus giving the go-ahead to Dutch monuments to open their doors to the public for free on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September. More than three thousand monuments participate in this. This year, for the first time, there is collaboration with the Flemish Open Monument Day. Professor Van Vollenhoven, together with the Flemish Member of Parliament Manuela van Werde, will perform the opening by announcing the song with which carillonneurs throughout the country will inaugurate the 35th edition of Open Monuments Day on 11 September. This year's theme is inclusion, which offers space for different perspectives associated with a monument or place. #DutchRoyalFamily #DutchRoyals #OrangeNassau #KoninklijkHuis #PietervanVollenhoven #Monarchy #EuropeanRoyalties https://www.instagram.com/p/CTm9sJRvwan/?utm_medium=tumblr

[wineanddinosaur]

9 Things You Should Know About Amstel Light

We have a lot to thank the Dutch for: the telescope, the microscope, Wi-Fi, and — perhaps most importantly — great beer. Among the greatest and most well known of those Dutch beers is none other than Amstel Light. The slightly bitter pale lager is celebrated across the globe, even if some of its limelight is admittedly stolen by Heineken.

Read on for nine things you should know about Amstel Light.

1. It was founded by BFFs.

Amstel’s “born out of friendship” slogan is no joke. The brand was founded in 1870 by Charles de Pesters and Johannes van Marwijk Kooy, best buddies and brothers-in-law. The friends wanted to bring Bavarian-style beer to Amsterdam because they believed that a heavier pilsner would be more popular among the Dutch than thinner top-fermented beers. They were right. And not only was Amstel born out of friendship, it can also help create new connections (if you’ve ever had one too many pints at the pub, you’ll know what we mean.)

2. It’s Heineken’s frenemy.

After nearly a century of being top competitors, Amstel was acquired by Heineken in 1968. It wasn’t their first time partnering, though. In 1941, Heineken and Amstel joined forces to buy the Van Vollenhoven Beer Brewery (which was then the largest Dutch beer exporter) to prevent it from being sold to Germans.

3. Amstel Light is the only Amstel beverage available across the States.

Amstel Light is the only one of the Amstel beers that is available for purchase across the United States, likely because Heineken doesn’t want to cannibalize its own brand’s success in the American market. Americans will have to travel internationally to taste the brand’s other products: Amstel Lager, Amstel Premium Pilsener, Amstel Bright, Amstel Radler, and Amstel ULTRA.

4. Amstel’s proof that beer and college go hand-in-hand.

After being merged with Heineken, the original Amstel brewery in Amsterdam closed down and was moved to Zoeterwoude in the Netherlands to be closer to the Heineken factory. Part of the original brewery was turned into a university, Hogeschool van Amsterdam. If we’re being honest, beer and college go together like eggs and bacon. We’re hoping they kept a few operating drafts in there for the parched pupils.

5. Amstel is Heineken’s guinea pig.

Heineken’s experimental beers are often launched under the Amstel brand. This is done to avoid tainting Heineken’s name if the brews aren’t well received.

6. Amstel’s named after a river — but it’s a special one.

The Amstel River is not just any old body of water — it feeds into 165 canals that served as Amsterdam’s most vital source of transportation for over 800 years, and it remains one of the most iconic features of the city to this day. It’s even been painted by one of the most famous artists of all time, Rembrandt, so we’d say it’s pretty important. In the early days of Amstel, ice was drawn from canals near the brewery and was stored in double-walled cellars for refrigeration.

7. Amstel has pride for its hometown.

No one has more pride in their hometown than Amstel (with the exception of a few rappers and a number of fanatical sports fans). The brand is so proud of its origins that it centered its entire logo around Amsterdam. The red and white split on the Amstel label represents the river that flows through the center of the city, and the two lions on the top of the label are the same lions found on the city crest. Talk about civic pride.

8. It’s one of the biggest beer brands in the world by volume.

In 2016, Amstel was named the seventh-biggest beer brand in the world by volume, and was available in over 100 markets. We’re not in Kansas Amsterdam anymore.

9. Amstel enjoys a good game of footie.

The brand was a longtime sponsor of UEFA Europa League, one of the biggest soccer tournaments in the world. Amstel’s sponsorship of the competition stems back to 1994, but the brand was subbed out in 2020 for Heineken’s first non-alcoholic beer. It’s OK, Amstel, we’ve all been benchwarmers at one point or another.

The article 9 Things You Should Know About Amstel Light appeared first on VinePair.

source https://vinepair.com/articles/ntk-amstel-light-guide/

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King Willem Alexander, Queen Máxima, Princess Beatriz, Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven arriving for the new years reception for Dutch guests at the royal palace in Amsterdam. January 13, 2025.

📷 Albert Nieboer

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ August 27, 2005✵

Anita van Eijk & Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, November 19th:

Go-Kashiwabara, Emperor of Japan, 1464

Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Brandenburg, 1597

Charles I, King of England, 1600

Lalla Hasna, Princess of Morocco, 1967

Davina Lewis, British Royal, 1977

Pieter van Vollenhoven, Dutch Royal, 2008

Gaston of Orleans, French Royal, 2009

[johnboothus]

9 Things You Should Know About Amstel Light

We have a lot to thank the Dutch for: the telescope, the microscope, Wi-Fi, and — perhaps most importantly — great beer. Among the greatest and most well known of those Dutch beers is none other than Amstel Light. The slightly bitter pale lager is celebrated across the globe, even if some of its limelight is admittedly stolen by Heineken.

Read on for nine things you should know about Amstel Light.

1. It was founded by BFFs.

Amstel’s “born out of friendship” slogan is no joke. The brand was founded in 1870 by Charles de Pesters and Johannes van Marwijk Kooy, best buddies and brothers-in-law. The friends wanted to bring Bavarian-style beer to Amsterdam because they believed that a heavier pilsner would be more popular among the Dutch than thinner top-fermented beers. They were right. And not only was Amstel born out of friendship, it can also help create new connections (if you’ve ever had one too many pints at the pub, you’ll know what we mean.)

2. It’s Heineken’s frenemy.

After nearly a century of being top competitors, Amstel was acquired by Heineken in 1968. It wasn’t their first time partnering, though. In 1941, Heineken and Amstel joined forces to buy the Van Vollenhoven Beer Brewery (which was then the largest Dutch beer exporter) to prevent it from being sold to Germans.

3. Amstel Light is the only Amstel beverage available across the States.

Amstel Light is the only one of the Amstel beers that is available for purchase across the United States, likely because Heineken doesn’t want to cannibalize its own brand’s success in the American market. Americans will have to travel internationally to taste the brand’s other products: Amstel Lager, Amstel Premium Pilsener, Amstel Bright, Amstel Radler, and Amstel ULTRA.

4. Amstel’s proof that beer and college go hand-in-hand.

After being merged with Heineken, the original Amstel brewery in Amsterdam closed down and was moved to Zoeterwoude in the Netherlands to be closer to the Heineken factory. Part of the original brewery was turned into a university, Hogeschool van Amsterdam. If we’re being honest, beer and college go together like eggs and bacon. We’re hoping they kept a few operating drafts in there for the parched pupils.

5. Amstel is Heineken’s guinea pig.

Heineken’s experimental beers are often launched under the Amstel brand. This is done to avoid tainting Heineken’s name if the brews aren’t well received.

6. Amstel’s named after a river — but it’s a special one.

The Amstel River is not just any old body of water — it feeds into 165 canals that served as Amsterdam’s most vital source of transportation for over 800 years, and it remains one of the most iconic features of the city to this day. It’s even been painted by one of the most famous artists of all time, Rembrandt, so we’d say it’s pretty important. In the early days of Amstel, ice was drawn from canals near the brewery and was stored in double-walled cellars for refrigeration.

7. Amstel has pride for its hometown.

No one has more pride in their hometown than Amstel (with the exception of a few rappers and a number of fanatical sports fans). The brand is so proud of its origins that it centered its entire logo around Amsterdam. The red and white split on the Amstel label represents the river that flows through the center of the city, and the two lions on the top of the label are the same lions found on the city crest. Talk about civic pride.

8. It’s one of the biggest beer brands in the world by volume.

In 2016, Amstel was named the seventh-biggest beer brand in the world by volume, and was available in over 100 markets. We’re not in Kansas Amsterdam anymore.

9. Amstel enjoys a good game of footie.

The brand was a longtime sponsor of UEFA Europa League, one of the biggest soccer tournaments in the world. Amstel’s sponsorship of the competition stems back to 1994, but the brand was subbed out in 2020 for Heineken’s first non-alcoholic beer. It’s OK, Amstel, we’ve all been benchwarmers at one point or another.

The article 9 Things You Should Know About Amstel Light appeared first on VinePair.

Via https://vinepair.com/articles/ntk-amstel-light-guide/

source https://vinology1.weebly.com/blog/9-things-you-should-know-about-amstel-light

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Boeing Refuses to Cooperate With New Inquiry into Deadly Crash

Boeing and American safety officials refused to cooperate on Thursday with a new inquiry by Dutch lawmakers into a deadly crash near Amsterdam in 2009 that had striking parallels with two more recent accidents involving the manufacturer’s 737 Max.Members of the Dutch parliament wanted to question the Boeing chief executive, David Calhoun, about the company’s possible influence over the original Dutch investigation of the accident, which killed nine people on a Turkish Airlines flight. The National Transportation Safety Board also refused lawmakers’ request to participate.The legislators initiated the review in the wake of a New York Times examination of evidence from the 2009 crash that found that Dutch safety authorities had either removed or played down some criticisms of Boeing in their accident report, after pushback from an American team that included the manufacturer and officials from the N.T.S.B. and the Federal Aviation Administration.The Dutch authorities had also declined to publish an expert study that blasted Boeing for “design shortcomings” and other missteps. The investigating agency, the Dutch Safety Board, had said the study was confidential, but later posted it online after The Times detailed its findings.Boeing and the N.T.S.B. declined to comment on Thursday. In a letter to the Dutch House of Representatives, the N.T.S.B. said “there should be confidence in the integrity” of its participation in the initial investigation of the 2009 crash, insisting that its work was always “independent, transparent and free from bias.”In a separate letter, Boeing’s executive vice president for government operations, Timothy Keating, said the American team in 2009 had been led by the N.T.S.B. and “we will follow the lead of the N.T.S.B.”Jan Paternotte, a Dutch lawmaker, expressed frustration at Boeing’s refusal to attend the hearing on Thursday and likened the decision to the company’s missteps after the recent crashes of the 737 Max, which killed 346 people, plunged Boeing into the biggest crisis in its history, and shook international confidence in the manufacturer and its American regulators.“The company has a lot to answer for,” said Mr. Paternotte, a member of the parliamentary committee that held the hearing. “This is just the latest example of Boeing trying to be their own arbiter.”Mr. Paternotte noted that European governments would need to approve the fixes to the Max, which has been grounded for nearly a year, before it could return to service. “Not answering questions does not help us to strengthen our confidence in the company,” he said.The Dutch Safety Board’s report, issued in 2010, included some criticisms of Boeing but focused most of the blame on errors by the pilots, who had failed to notice that an automated system was cutting the plane’s speed dangerously low just before landing. Investigators determined that a malfunctioning sensor had caused the erroneous computer command.Image

Dutch lawmakers asked to question Boeing’s chief executive, David Calhoun. The request was denied.Credit...Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesBut the previously unpublished study, commissioned by the board and conducted by an aviation safety expert, accused Boeing of emphasizing the pilots’ mistakes to divert attention from the company’s design missteps.At the hearing, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who leads the Dutch Safety Board, acknowledged that there could be greater transparency around the source of information in its investigations, but said that the board had nonetheless acted independently and that Boeing had not escaped blame. Was Boeing deliberately spared? “That’s just not the case,” he said.A former chairman, Pieter van Vollenhoven, who led the board at the time of the investigation, defended its emphasis on pilot errors’ causing the crash. “The pilots could have prevented it,” he said.Some of the problems highlighted in the study by the expert, Sidney Dekker, now a professor in Australia and the Netherlands, have since resurfaced in the findings of investigators examining the recent Max crashes.In both the Max accidents and the 2009 crash, which involved a 737 NG, Boeing’s design decisions allowed a single malfunctioning sensor to trigger a powerful computer command, even though the plane was equipped with two sensors. For both models, the company had determined that if a sensor failed, pilots would recognize the problem and recover the plane. But Boeing did not provide pilots with key information that could have helped them counteract the automation error.After the 2009 crash, regulators required airlines to install a software update for the NG that allowed comparison of data from the two available sensors — much the same fix that Boeing has now proposed for the Max. In the case of the NG, Boeing had developed a software update before the 2009 accident, but it wasn’t compatible with all existing models, including the jet that crashed near Amsterdam.Joe Sedor, the N.T.S.B. official who led the American team that participated in the Dutch investigation a decade ago, as well as representatives of Boeing and the F.A.A., cautioned last month against comparing the crashes, noting that they involved different systems on different planes. But a senior F.A.A. official, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, told The Times that the study highlighted important issues that had not received sufficient public attention.In its final report on the 2009 crash, the Dutch board removed or softened some statements after the American team raised objections and wrote that the pilots’ mistakes had not been “properly emphasized.”Aviation safety experts who reviewed the board’s final report and Dr. Dekker’s study told The Times that the incomplete airing of conclusions from the earlier crash amounted to a missed opportunity.The earlier crash “should have woken everybody up,” said David Woods, an Ohio State professor who has advised the F.A.A. Instead, “the issue got buried.”Lawmakers will discuss their inquiry again next week, Mr. Paternotte said after the hearing. In the meantime, he said, they will press the Dutch board for documents that could shed light on whether Boeing influenced the investigation. Read the full article

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Happy 50th Anniversary to Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven! (10 January 1967)

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Cornelis van Vollenhoven, a Dutch legal scholar dubbed as the “The Man for Adat Law” for his extensive work on Adat law.