King Willem-Alexander had ‘whip up’ his daughters on the finish of 2021 to observe the race for the world title in Method 1. When issues virtually went improper for Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi, the monarch really needed to run away from tv. “Fortunately I did not try this,” says Willem-Alexander in his podcast sequence By the eyes of the king to Edwin Evers.
Within the penultimate episode, the king and Evers look again on 2021, the yr by which Verstappen turned the primary Dutch world champion in Method 1 after a weird last lap on the Abu Dhabi circuit.
,,I used to be watching at residence”, reconstructs Willem-Alexander. “I used to be nervous all day. And I had been getting the youngsters all day lengthy to go and take a look. Through the race it did not seem like Max was going to win. After which I believed to myself, ‘I am not leaving the tv now as a result of I have been on all of it day, I’ve bought the entire household to be right here’. If issues do not go properly now, it’s important to keep put.”
Edwin Evers: ,,You tended to do one thing else, really?”
Willem-Alexander: ,,You may’t make it in direction of your kids to rise up now and stroll away in a nasty temper.”
Evers: ,,Papa goes to do one thing else, haha.”
The King: “Precisely, I used to be ready to try this. Haha. Fortunately I did not.”
State visits
The primary topic of the ninth episode are state visits and different international journeys made by the king in workplace, often within the firm of Queen Máxima.
Willem-Alexander: ,,And additionally it is very good to try this along with the Queen. I additionally mentioned earlier than the inauguration: ‘It is not job sharing’. That signifies that I’ve to do all of it myself, however it’s a operate that we are able to fill collectively. She helps me on this. The good factor is if in case you have a dialog someplace – and also you each learn the identical file – you each get totally different factors which might be necessary. So you possibly can carry out way more successfully in pairs than alone. And that’s one thing that we actually discovered collectively and that works very properly.”
Evers: ,,It is extra enjoyable with two individuals, is not it?”
The king: ,,It is vitally good, sure. Final yr I needed to miss a visit to the US due to pneumonia. And that Máxima got here again and mentioned ‘I missed my buddy’. We do have that feeling collectively, that we’re actually buddies and that we work collectively and strengthen one another on such a go to.”
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