THE NETHERLANDS: THOUSANDS OF DUTCH CITIZENS ARRIVE IN THE HAGUE TO PAY THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO PRINCE BERNHARD

Record ID: 649210

  • Title: THE NETHERLANDS: THOUSANDS OF DUTCH CITIZENS ARRIVE IN THE HAGUE TO PAY THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO PRINCE BERNHARD
  • Date: 7th December 2004
  • Summary: (U4) THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS (DECEMBER 7, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. LAS PEOPLE LINING UP TO ENTER THE ROYAL PALACE WHERE THEY WILL GREET HIS MAJESTY FOR THE LAST TIME 0.04 2. LAS PEOPLE CLIMBING THE STAIRS OF THE PALACE, WHICH IS COVERED BY FLOWERS 0.09 3. MCU OF A SECOND WORLD WAR VETERAN 0.12 4. SLV OF PEOPLE QUEUING 0.16 5. SV/CU OF FLOWERS BROUGHT BY MOURNERS (2 SHOTS) 0.27 6. SV/CU WOMEN LAYING DOWN A SMALL VELVET MONKEY (2 SHOTS) 0.42 7. PAN ACROSS PICTURE OF PRINCE BERNHARD TO THE CONDOLENCE ROOM 0.51 8. CU OF WRITING HANDS OFFERING CONDOLENCE 0.57 9. SV OF A COUPLE SIGNING THE CONDOLENCE BOOK 1.00 10. PAN OF A WOMEN'S FACE TO HER HANDS SIGNING THE CONDOLENCE BOOK 1.09 11. SV/SLV PEOPLE GOING THROUGH THE GATE TO ENTER THE PALACE (2 SHOTS) 1.27 12. MCU (Dutch) GE MEULDER, MOURNER, SAYING: "I'm here to show my loyalty to the royal family, that's what I really want to do but my heart goes to her majesty the queen who I think is so alone. When I come home, I can at least tell my husband about the good and the bad things of the day. She still has her children, but children are different then you parents. My thoughts go to Prince Claus as well and to Queen Juliana and to the whole family." 1.59 13. CU MAN HOLDING FLOWER 2.09 14. SLV VETERANS ARRIVING AT ROYAL PALACE 2.15 15. MCU (Dutch) MR. DHUESKEN, MOURNER, SAYING: "You could always rely on him, you could always rely on him. We had a friend who had been severely wounded, his leg had to be cut and he needed some special care and material, special car and so on. It was very difficult to get it. It took one letter to the Prince and it was immediately sorted out. He was an old comrade." 2.36 16. SLV POLICE IN FRONT OF PALACE 2.39 17. CU DUTCH FLAG HANGING AT HALF MAST 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Reuters ID: LVAEW4F27WJY9VL8RTFFFLD24XX0
  • Story Text: Just 6 days after Prince Bernhard passed away, Dutch
    people are given the opportunity to take formal leave to
    his majesty at the Royal Palace.



    Thousands of Dutch citizens arrived in the Hague on
    Tuesday (December 7) to pay their last respects to Dutch
    Prince Bernhard, one of the most popular figures in the
    royal family.

    Prince Bernhard died last Wednesday (December 1) at the age
    of 93.

    Many mourners with flowers were queuing at the entrance
    of the Royal "Noordeinde" Palace in the Dutch capital, for
    the first of three days of public farewell to the Prince.

    Bernhard, the father of the Netherlands' sitting
    monarch, Queen Beatrix, was suffering from cancer. The
    German-born prince, who became the consort of the late
    Queen Juliana, was a pilot with the Allied forces fighting
    against Germany in World War Two. Bernhard's service during
    the war and his help rebuilding the nation after the Nazi
    occupation earned him the respect of his adopted country.

    Dozens of World War Two veterans were among the first
    to pay their respects to the prince on Tuesday (December
    7). "You could always rely on him. We had a friend who had
    been severely wounded, his leg had to be cut and he needed
    some special care.... It took one letter to the prince and
    it was immediately sorted out. He was an old comrade.", war
    veteran Mr Dhuesken told Reuters.

    But Prince Bernhard's image suffered in 1976, when he
    accepted the findings of a Dutch parliamentary commission
    that he had received improper commissions from the United
    States aircraft manufacturer, Lockheed.

    Beyond his country he was seen as a jet-setting and
    charismatic ambassador for the Dutch during post-war
    reconstruction. In 1961 he helped create the World Wildlife
    Fund, and became its first president.

    Queen Juliana, who abdicated in favour of her daughter
    in 1980, died in March this year.

    The official funeral ceremony is scheduled to take
    place on Saturday (December 11), in Delft.


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