If Princess Amalia of Holland wants to marry a woman, she will still be queen

If the princess Catherine-Amalia, heir to the Dutch throne, if he wanted to marry a woman one day, she would still be queen. The turning point was put in writing by the Dutch premier Mark Rutte responding to issues raised in parliament after the release of a book on the seventeen-year-old future monarch, eldest daughter of the current rulers William Alexander e Maxima Zorreguieta.

In the book, entitled Amalia, Duty Calls, it is argued that the rules who supervise the trials of the monarchy have remained antiquated and disconnected from the times. Hence the parliamentary debate which also concerned the issue of royal wedding and gender issues. But Prime Minister Rutte, with a letter to parliament, opened at royal weddings without gender foreclosure who will not cut the road to the crown: “The government believes that the heir to the throne can also marry a person of the same sex,” wrote the premier. “And so it is not believed that an heir to the throne or a king should abdicate if he intends to marry a person of the same sex».

A turning point that confirms the proverbial modernity of the monarchies of northern Europe, defined as cycling monarchies precisely because of the openness to the new and practicality. It was precisely the northernmost monarchies, to say, the first to introduce theequal right to the throne of male or female descendants.

Catherine-Amalia at the moment he is thinking of the University, certainly not of marriage. But the road to the evolution of the monarchy is drawn. And it goes towards a modernity to which the seventeen year old herself has made her contribution. The future queen a few months ago renounced the substantial royal prerogative – 1.6 million euros – which would be due to her at the age of 18. Because “I didn’t do anything to deserve it”.