Jeroen Snel thinks it is very cowardly that Evert Santegoeds does not dare to publish images of Princess Alexia and singer Antoon. “I would take the risk. There is so much news value about this.”
Princess Alexia sat down on a nearby terrace on Prinsjesdag half an hour after the balcony scene, to get himself in an expensive Range Rover – before everyone on the terrace – picked up by singer Antoon. An eyewitness has made a video of it and sent to weekly magazine Privé, which is big with this ‘romance’.
Alexia and Antoon
Private boss Evert Santegoeds, however, does not dare to bring out the images, because the royals, unlike ordinary well-known Dutch people, enjoy a unilaterally imposed ‘media code’. Media who do not respect the ‘privacy’ of the Oranges are no longer allowed to go to the official photo moments.
In any case, the news about Alexia and Antoon is correct, says royalty expert Jeroen Snel. “I was also told that they were seen together in a restaurant in Amsterdam. Whether it is very romantic I don’t know, but they were eating together,” he tells the desk of RTL Boulevard.
Media code
Why does Privé not publish the images in Privé according to Jeroen? “Because it was about the media code, but it is: it is Prinsjesdag, there is a lot of press, you sit in the middle of The Hague on a terrace a stone’s throw from Noordeinde Palace, you just had that balcony scene in which you still wave as Alexia being …”
That is a gray area, says the royalty expert. “I would take the risk. This is so much news value, also because he is an artist.”
That one photo
What if Privé publishes the video? “Well, then you will be excluded …”, Jeroen begins.
Presenter Frank Dane laughing: “Then you can’t take that one photo in the garden anymore?”
Jeroen: “Yes, in the winter there will be another photo session and then you cannot be there. Then you buy that photo of another press agency and then you still have it.”
Lex expression: “But this scoop is …”
More importantly, he wants to say. Yes, Jeroen agrees. “I don’t know what’s going on.”
Far too expensive
Jeroen wonders what the considerations are from Evert. “Whether Evert thinks: I’m going to do it next week and then I will have the attention twice or it is way too expensive. I don’t know, because I also had something like that: why don’t you show Antoon in that Range Rover without Alexia? Because then you are safe in terms of media code.”
“But maybe he should pay the full pound. I don’t know. Time will learn it, but let’s hope that Alexia and Antoon will stand. On the other hand: she is 20, he is 23 … yes, so young, everything will happen of course in their lives.”