A few weeks ago, Queen Máxima put bad blood with people of the press by walking a plane with her hands in front of her face. Why actually? “That’s just a loss.”
It was a bit shocked for the press present: Queen Máxima held her hands in front of her face on arrival in Cape Town last month when she got out of the plane. There was no South African press present, but there were Dutch photographers waiting and they went home without its attitude.
Don’t feel like it
Royalty journalist Rick Evers has seen the images in question, in contrast to the rest of the Netherlands. “I have seen photos, because yes, photographers are already there for an hour, but those images were not allowed to be explicitly placed. She just didn’t feel like it,” he writes in the Weekend.
The striking thing is that Máxima knew that photographers were ready. They were also led to the runway by its employees. Why? “We have the deal: we don’t bother her outside of work.”
Why angry?
Why are those photographers so pissed about that? Rick explains that he would also have liked to have been present. “But it is also a trade -off for my financial health, just like for the photographers who were there now. I am a freelancer, not employed by a broadcaster or magazine.”
A party like the NOS is not bothered by that; He has enough budget. But for Rick, and those photographers, it is different. “I always have to make agreements based on what has been promised of such a journey. Based on those agreements, you hope that you will at least have something left to the journey.”
Loss
The refusing Máxima was just a tough loss for those two freelance photographers who stood with her flying door. “They had to travel to Cape Town earlier, so they stayed an extra night in Cape Town. Not annoying, an almost day off, but with in mind that it would also yield something.”
“The RVD employee guided them to the airport, as it always goes. (…) How crazy is it that Máxima refused to be photographed? (…) She is the queen on a business trip. (…) Queen Máxima does not earn a lot of money from us all? Is it really too much to ask?”
Unnecessary costs
Máxima actually deserves a reprimande, says Rick. “Someone in permanent employment would get an official warning for it. Or should my colleagues send her an invoice for the unnecessary costs?”
She should not be so vain, he concludes. “We already have the queen with her hair in a tail, reading glasses And see compression stockings coming out of the plane. And that is precisely why the Netherlands loves her so much. “