King Willem-Alexander was spotted shortly after the NATO summit at the Rotterdam shawarma shop Jaffa. With Queen Maxima and Princess Alexia, he simply connected a hair salon, fries under a layer of grilled meat with a little vegetables and on top of a layer of cheese. The king wore ‘leisure clothing’ including a blue cap and made a relaxed impression, so he took a picture with ‘all employees’ of the case. Earlier in the day they also visited ‘De Ballentent’ in Rotterdam in Half Family, a catering business where everything revolves around the meatball that has become popular of the RTL5 reality series 010: The people who give Rotterdam color. A video made by a patio visitor who filmed the king’s departure has since been viewed a million times. On NOS.nl I read the following sentence: “It is good use that media do not share such private images without a clear news advisory.”
That news advisory is still foggy, visiting and a meatball tent and a shawarma store in a day is a lot. Too many. Even ordinary people only do one in a day. It may of course be that the king in the ball tent has not eaten anything or has limited himself to half a meatball, and perhaps he has not eaten his entire hair salon, or they have emptied the aluminum tray together with three forks, but that too is strange behavior.
What did they do there and why?
I immediately had to think of Donald Trump who baked fries in his election campaign and served in a McDonalds branch in ‘The Battleground State Pennsylvania’. Perhaps Donald explained the royal couple at the Naitit or breakfast in Huis ten Bosch Palace how to conquer the folk favor. That you don’t get along with singing songs, throwing toilet bowls and doing dull games that ordinary people get their nose for. You have to be with them, but with the privileges like those who simply come up with the function. On Saturday, the king went through the line trump. He drove escorted by motorcycle agents through all the red lights between Noordeinde and Assen, got off at the circuit of the TT, let himself be photographed on a campsite, walked straight through the paddock to the honorary grandstand, covered a motorcycle and a motorcyclist, seam down and stabbed his thumbs up. And then he went back through everyone, with a bread and a piece of Unox sausage, not overly waving, but like ordinary people would do it if they had a lot of privileges in one go.
Marcel van Roosmalen Writes a column on Monday and Thursday.