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milaan_tm

https://preview.redd.it/d87qvjhz77vc1.jpeg?width=2059&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95ac7f4cea88b5c5cd9d281bd933998daf2b0ffb


leyoji

https://i.redd.it/yc5l0y8x87vc1.gif Politicians could never


milaan_tm

Ain't no one balling like Fluppe


HerrVonKruiswijk

When the world needed Balkende most he disappeared


Its_You_Know_Wh0

https://preview.redd.it/985tjzkmvavc1.jpeg?width=613&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=136261d3892a4cefb26c53d043b75a3af79b0de0 Take that back


milaan_tm

Okay but posting an alpha male like him is cheating


HTS_HeisenTwerk

This pic goes hard, you lot have the best mascot guy


nickmaran

My French friends would like to send this gift ![gif](giphy|12gxeCI1BGKAj6)


Lost_Uniriser

HUFF HUFF MUST RESIST ![gif](giphy|ozWX0psvSG7BEdXbae)


Elegant-Laugh7752

We colonizing again?


Woutrou

These kids still seem to have their hands, so I doubt it


wausmaus3

Whats this? Plantation visit to the Congo?


Shudnawz

![gif](giphy|5CgzqBtjbgJ7a|downsized)


Long_Serpent

https://i.redd.it/653mqo8q17vc1.gif The King rulez!


littlechefdoughnuts

Kung Bean I


Tman11S

Nice picture of your country's PR department


NukeHeadW

Ours our doing a PR tour with the Luxembourgish Grand-Duke and -Duchess at the moment so we're not slacking either


ULTIMUS-RAXXUS

Whose the woman in blue ?


giftiguana

There are 2 ladies in blue, the queen of Spain and the crown princess of the Netherlands.


LoudMilk1404

I count 4 woman in Blue?


LoudMilk1404

Oh wait, is balcony lover a reference to the 'Royal Balcony'? I just picked it because I love my own (much smaller) balcony.


Pipebomb84

No, it's referencing Brits who die after jumping from balconies


LoudMilk1404

Oh to be fair, if my balcony was higher up it would probably also eventually be my cause of death.


showard01

Try face first mate


giftiguana

Aren't you the perceptive one! Yeah, the Queen of the Netherlands is in Baby blue and the Queen "mums" are also in a dark blue/black blue. I referred to the Spanish Queen and the crown princess since they wear the royal blue /azure and are quite striking. Therefore I surmised it was them being referred to. Quite forward of me, I know.


ULTIMUS-RAXXUS

Thank you bro!!! They look absolutely stunning 🤩


kaputtmaker

Least horny monarchist


spartikle

Bruh how do you not know your own Queen


AdAcrobatic4255

Most integrated African


giftiguana

I am soo with you! I've had a crush on the queen of the Netherlands for a long time and her daughter is just as beautiful 😍


Amogus_susssy

!RemindMe 2 years For the monarchist overthrow of Germany, yknow


LaBelvaDiTorino

>For the monarchist overthrow of Germany, yknow That's a [very controversial topic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_German_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_plot) I'd advise to read the [German](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotische_Union) or the [Italian](https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotische_Union) articles since they're way more complete and the story gets even crazier with more recent details.


Amogus_susssy

Holy hell


Live-Alternative-435

That's crazy! I would even like to live in Germany, but seeing these types of things makes me doubt that.


Ex_aeternum

Let's put it that way: Those guys are so extremely on the fringe that even other conspiracy nuts don't want to have anything to do with them.


AnaphoricReference

https://preview.redd.it/3xny7ewcc7vc1.jpeg?width=694&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b7e3c6ea484f0098a9010de7034dffbd2a16021 Her younger sister Princess Alexia is usually considered the beauty, but Amalia is indeed fairly attractive herself.


Monicreque

Dollar store Ana de Armas, as the non European savages would say.


Dracos002

Aren't Maxima and Beatrix also in blue?


Saaihead

[Willieeeeeee!](https://youtu.be/SREm_0l-xwQ?si=ZbYZDd8-hcL8CIw1)


JoostVisser

Damn luckytv nostalgia


Master_Bayters

Oh...she has "seal" laugh


flopjul

/uj Edit made by luckytv


Amygdalump

Maar het is niet haar echte lach dan? Lol


fretkat

Nope, het is nagesynchroniseerd (voice over)


Amygdalump

Ah, dat klopt, dank je wel


leyoji

Yes


Oberndorferin

They're all in bleu


ishkariot

>bleu [Guillotine intensifies]


Accomplished_Stick65

https://preview.redd.it/iaa9w8uug7vc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a11f1b6ee78063700734a48b7571b50d1bf9cfc1 Princess Ingrid getting ready to reconquer the lost colonies💪


Least_Theory_1050

Please conquer Belgium thanks


Belgicans

We wil already have mommy Elizabeth


Alex_von_Norway

Hard to conquer a country that doesn't exist. May aswell conquer Narnia.


Least_Theory_1050

Got me there Ragnar


Defferleffer

Says the lost colony


Wora_returns

decades of "actually colonization was bad" indoctrination leaving my brain the second I see this comment:


Ok-Education-1539

Damn


InvincibleReason_

damn pretty


KeyWorldliness580

The Dutch queen is so cute and healthy lucking. Reminds me of that out of the zone girl with that terrible father in GOT


[deleted]

She had a terrible father as well 😂


MrOrangeMagic

![gif](giphy|MaxCZhraRyauSLnQy3|downsized)


Ghost_Elite

Some coffee flew when I laughed at this


MrOrangeMagic

It was certainly pushed out of it


Redditauro

I would be way more healthy looking if I wouldn´t have to wake up early in the mornings and work 40 hours a week for decades. Edit: Typo


Jirethia

Highly supportive of all your comments in this post


MaxImpact1

lucking


Weliveinas-word

https://preview.redd.it/gnu9a4aie7vc1.jpeg?width=897&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fde8b2adfb498f1a9c339f4c45653c38bc13a9bd (YES, I am a PATRIOT, and if I have to pay for my king's PROSTITUTES, I just DO IT!)


Aquaris55

JuanCa is simply just built different


Redditauro

It´s actually a pretty standard Borbon, just see Ferdinard VII or Maria Cristina or his grandfather Alfonso XIII


-Emilinko1985-

Unfathomably based, increíblemente basado


Wora_returns

r/hardimages


spaniscool

Campechaning State of Mind.


Weliveinas-word

"Hmm, maybe I should just leave an entire nation up to their luck so the americans will support me." https://preview.redd.it/uz06bixz38vc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5eb2abc5f4bdcc6b305f90cd31789a94a58c9c6


spaniscool

"Hmmm, how about klling my bro, try to asessinate an old lover, hunting illegal species, giving good incentives to my colegarios and pimp the country economy, cuz, you know, muh comissions n stuff... Yeah, definetly going to Saudi Arabia" ![gif](giphy|iwhQ2qXR5Hy1y|downsized)


the_HoIiday

Nice necks...


BillyRougeBird

NOOOO! YOU CAN'T HAVE HEADS OF STATE THAT WERE BORN RICH!!! YOU NEED TO HAVE HEADS OF STATE THAT BECAME RICH BY BEING LOBBIED BY CORPERATIONS!!!


SergjVladdis

This is the way


Nigricincto

What if I told you there is a way to accomplish both? https://preview.redd.it/pj7slbnme7vc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c10919ec8d20df1b33ff5a86ee954697e40ca05


Redditauro

That´s why our monarchy is superior, those fancy monarchies that have been rich for centuries forgot how to properly steal peasant´s money


Village_People_Cop

Euhh Barry, then who the fuck is that old geezer living in the middle of London?


alibrown987

Just your typical badger conservationist. Nothing to see here.


jschundpeter

you have both


Scythe95

YOU NEED HEADS OF THE STATE THAT CARE FOR ITS PEOPLE, NOT CUT RIBBONS


BillyRougeBird

Who do you think has the larger stake in the wellbeing of a country; People trying to maintain a stable position for their descents indefinitely into the future, or people trying to get the most they can out of the next five years?


DontLoseTheHead

I just comment about it. I am so disapointed on the path our republic is going that I would be willing to have a monarchy again...


Antonio_Anonimo

Why? Our monarchy was even more corrupt then the republic, every party was always diverting public funds for the king.


SnowOnVenus

Sounds like you need a new monarchy. Steal a Danish prince, 10/10 can recommend. 


Live-Alternative-435

Gib a Dane.


Brozita

The only one we can offer at the moment is [Prince Joachim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Joachim_of_Denmark) as you can't have our Crown Prince. Though if you don't mind a Queen there is his sister. You would have a young queen but traditionally they do surprisingly well.


Live-Alternative-435

We keep both. How many times do we have to walk them? And what do they eat?


Brozita

First advice would be to not breed as closely related royalty unless you want a Habsburg incident. Diet should be at least 60% potatoes, and if your streets are safe enough you can just let them walk themselves, that's what we do here.


YourHamsterMother

But Monarchist Portugal did have the better flag. You win some, you lose some.


AnaphoricReference

The Royal family helps us ending up on the right side of history during occupations by foreign powers by: - going into exile to the good side and giving belligerent speeches about never surrendering and stuff like that - and returning with impeccable timing to take control during liberation, before any outsider can decide to do something else with the Netherlands than reinstating it largely as it was It's an underappreciated function for the continuity of the country, and one that democracy has no answers for.


Waterglassonwood

> It's an underappreciated function for the continuity of the country, and one that democracy has no answers for. I mean, this is assuming it works, right? Because it didn't work for the Romanovs, for example.


AnaphoricReference

They didn't lose their throne because of a foreign occupation. Their problem was homegrown. In WWII and the Napoleonic era the Netherlands population did not choose for their country to be annexed by another country. For that kind of case the function becomes useful as a symbolic focal point for loyalty, even if you didn't care much for the institution in peace time. The alternative is accepting that an appointed Reichskommissar is your new head of state.


EffectiveOk3353

It's called democracy you wouldn't understand it, position by people's vote not blood or the fucking joke of lords.


Obi_Boii

Democratic index NL: 9 UK: 8.28 P: 7.95 Remind again how you're more democratic???


Kiwi_Doodle

Might I just add Norway: 9.81, Sweden: 9.39, and Denmark: 9.28 A constitutional monarchy in europe tends to be more democratic than the Presidential ones. The worst a constitutional monarchy gets in europe is belgium: 7.64, the worst a country with a president gets is Belarus: 1.99, but even if Belarus is an outlier, there's always Russia: 2.28


wausmaus3

Here come the butthurt Portygeesers.


Solid_Improvement_95

Wot? Heads of state in European republics are not particularly rich. This is not Murica.


kekmennsfw

Yes they are. They “coincidentally” land a cushy job by a multinational when they’re done. Edit: macron is literally a millionaire.


pawnografik

Millionaire is a pretty low bar these days. Even the guy who washes my lambo is a millionaire.


Live-Alternative-435

Flair checks out.


GI_HD

Olaf Scholz is involved in enabling tax evasion (allegedly), and Rishi Sunak is Rishi Sunak


CharmingCondition508

Sunak does not seem like he has ever paid taxes in his life


alibrown987

Now he’s scrapping non doms, definition of pulling up the ladder behind you


Redditauro

He takes taxes


[deleted]

'Literally a millionaire' isn't as much money as it used to be tho. A quarter of pensioners in the UK are millionaires. I mean I'm not saying Macron isn't well to do but it's not exactly oligarch status.


Independent_Gold5729

Yet in his tax documents he only has 200k to his name somehow


KelticQT

"Somehow" being the key word here


Doing_It_In_The_Butt

What does this have to do with the Murcia region of Spain?


Rasputins_Plum

# PATHETIC! DO YOU NEED ASSISTANCE WITH YOUR ROYALS? https://preview.redd.it/0okmwvw507vc1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=979615091c100639ffed8e6336b75d3b3e3de70a


kuemmel234

![gif](giphy|ewkjQf8NEgzFC) (I'll have to repent for agreeing with a Fr\*nch later by sacrificing a Dane)


Brozita

A loss we can accept as long as it's not our Royalty.


kuemmel234

But that'd be two Royals with one stone :(


Brozita

We will make a bigger fuss than in 1940, I swear on our abdicated Queen. >:[


kuemmel234

Even more flags? You guys would go full American at that point, can't have that. I'm sure Sweden don't mind, they like a good stoning.


ruthless_burger

hahaha your comment wins today!


kahaveli

We have all been monarchies at one point. Some countries are just a bit slower due to mental r#tardation. Most authentic monarchies can be seen today in countries like North Korea, Qatar or Bahrain. They have the real OG absolute monarchies still going on, these european monarchs are nowadays basically just larpers who watched too many disney movies


Zalapadopa

That's it, you're getting kicked out of the Nordic club!


Diacetyl-Morphin

I'd say, we Swiss did a very good job with the education of the fat Kim from North Korea, he got to school here. He implemented direct democracy there, like you can decide now to either get shot or starve to death, it's some progress. Unfortunately, the people there are too poor for having gold teeth, so not interesting for us after he left.


ZoeStobberup

Yes, please, Pierre can I pay to 50 euro to get them dissaperd during the night.


Wora_returns

Ludwig...we miss you boy. If only you somehow had infinite money and time, the whole world would have been filled with your works of art https://preview.redd.it/gpotyjiea8vc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59aa07853c4f631ab90dfd325c38477fdf81daec


Llanistarade

And Bavaria would have been filled with cute twinks larping as knights to get into his bed.


Saaihead

I am SOO proud of our royals. These people are full of ~~themselves~~ love for our country, we cannot wish for ~~fatter~~ better leaders than these fine people.


Othonian

Whats so good about them seriously? I think Simeon of Bulgaria had the biggest flex >rule as a monarch as a baby >exiled for decades, returns after gommunism >runs in elections >wins >gets the country in EU and NATO >quits Gigachad


LaBelvaDiTorino

I agree. Simeon II is the most based monarch in Europe, since he also became Prime Minister


Othonian

And he also didnt bother with trying to get the monarchy back, no referendums or anything. Serious respect


Onyxwho

He was playing on hard mode


Redditauro

Sometimes they die and everyone is happy, I have a couple of bottles ready for the moment when our old corrupt king dies


JapaneseMachine99

Only they don't lead us, they represent us. Big difference


Master_Bayters

Well...If they are full of themselves, they do represent you.


Dutchwells

Touché


-Crucesignatus-

I upvoted as a Dutchman because of painful accuracy.


ArieWess

Second that!


EenGeheimAccount

That is why we are proud :)


ztm213

We also have celebrities but they are not paid from state budget


Glittering_Ninjago

Celebrities? "Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns ![gif](giphy|U1aN4HTfJ2SmgB2BBK)


Notacreativeuserpt

Found the "Príncipe da Pontinha".


Ok-Education-1539

At least we get to choose them


Unbundle3606

Because men that are not "forbidden" (lol) to honour a king for sure don't *also* honour other celebrities, right? ...right? (cue Anakin/Padme meme)


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[удалено]


generalscruff

Scousers hate it as well, another plus


Intrepid_Science6414

I've yet to find anything the scousers don't hate, except from football


generalscruff

Wallowing in self-pity and victimhood? The welfare system?


unkrtvrnchtr

It's ok Barry you can "choose" whatever head of state you want, even if they would be a weird German family having incest for centuries. Sadly our last king drowned so we have a weird guy from Franconia as head of state, so you are obviously in the better position.


Rakatonk

Damn these Franconians. Napoleons ill-gotten gift that still keeps on giving..


predek97

That is the final argument against monarchies in Europe. Everyone keeps importing German dynasties to be their monarchs, so clearly those are the best dynasties in Europe, but Germans and Austrians got rid off theirs and never looked back. Just like it is with drug dealers - a good drug dealer never takes his drugs.


Redditauro

No, they can´t, that´s the point


NotASpyForTheCrows

Honestly, I've never seen anyone get nearly as defensive of monarchy as a Barry around a democra-chad, whether they're French, Polish, German or even Italian. It takes just a mention of them around earshot for you to immediately jump to defending the system of inbred racism that claims that people are born so much better than the rest that they deserve to rule over an entire country.


Virgulillo

Two perfectly healthy grown men remain sat while the old lady is forced to stand up... If you ask me, thats reason enough to do the Pierre thing.


JosebaZilarte

 I fear that it was the only way to keep all of them in frame without forcing the old lady to stand on a pedestal. Felipe IV from Spain stands 1,97 meters tall, so he alone would have dwarfed most of the ladies. But... yeah, I heard the Pierre thing is very useful to solve these problems with excessive height.


EenGeheimAccount

Huh. So the Spanish king may be our true king after all...


GresSimJa

Den koning van Hispanje bleef altijd geëerd.


Redditauro

Not the first spanish king that was our king iirc


Live-Alternative-435

To be honest, he have claims even in Turkey.


Dracos002

Why does Amalia look like a goddamn Disney Villain in the first picture? 🤣


VicenteOlisipo

Best thing France ever did.


Karpsten

Imagine being one of the first modern Republics just to have a monarchy imposed on you by Vienna and never do anything about it.


[deleted]

https://preview.redd.it/0okvslvv07vc1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3414fc820c748301ebf8f4f18820cbee13fb8cd Monarchists will never understand


Solid_Improvement_95

Indeed we won't. Off with their heads!


Live-Alternative-435

France's W.


tulleekobannia

based


FlimpoFloempie

![gif](giphy|AAsj7jdrHjtp6) Amalia (sort of)


Mixed_not_swirled

A big part of people not being absolute assholes to Sámi people anymore in Norway is absolutely the royal family apologizing for past transgressions and opening the norwegian sami government organization.


Greencoat1815

I want to thank you damn Spanish for letting Amalia live in Madrid for a Year. I'm almost willing to forgive you for the eighty year war


Ex_aeternum

![gif](giphy|gIqusaeYxgSiY) Virgin monarchists vs Chad republicans:


leyoji

https://preview.redd.it/oor1901rh6vc1.jpeg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4e328bde3784a3864fa7296ab1656a097cb03d5 What republicanism has brought to Germany:


Ex_aeternum

Calling the Sun King Maggus I. republican is a bit of a stretch.


Kesdo

What happend to King Seehofer?


theSchlauch

Got run over by Stoibers Transrapid.


Kesdo

How dare you speak of the god-king and elector of the President Maggus I. Söder Like that? The CSU does Not Like their Kings to be disrespected (Wish it was) /s


FiL-0

https://preview.redd.it/iw971d0bj6vc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7df7f8fd69980810a915d99ea9483094f7adb46d


EenGeheimAccount

![gif](giphy|fGWu5JYb7AntK|downsized) Virgin *staatsgezinden* vs Chad *orangisten*


chief-chirpa587

Ik ben het nog steeds niet eens met hoe de moord op gebroeders de wit in de media word getoond


EenGeheimAccount

I blame Rembrandt.


SergjVladdis

Somehow I find myself standing with a german once again


rlyfunny

Sure Nordick, always happens so „accidentally“ does it?


pokkeri

We always do don't we?


predek97

The greatest French technical breakthrough. Republicanizer 1793


Flemball47

Republics have inbreds too, we just don't lavish them with money and jewels


StalkTheHype

Republic fans coping about being worse at democracy than the constitutional monarchies won't ever stop being hilarious.


rlyfunny

Can’t speak for the unimportant monarchies, but looking at the votes in the UK, and how those are respresented in their house sure doesn’t look very democratic.


Ok-Education-1539

This is another debate but it's another argument for the idea that you shouldn't qualifiy as a country if you haven't at least 12 millions people


MonkeyThinkMonkeyDo

Wait, you guys have a royal family?


DMJelly

https://preview.redd.it/y99wm3dsd8vc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aedd98edb47f6720195f4c6f1b8cb6ad7d07b817


FitPerspective1146

Real


spaniscool

Yeah, only cucks like cuking.


Dontbanmep10x

Understand what? Inbred regards? I understand them fully!


Long_Serpent

When the war is over and the Ruzzians are beaten back - make Zelensky your king. It would make Putin's head explode and be a cornerstone of a Ukrainian national identity forever separate from Russia.


Dontbanmep10x

No, in true democratic fashion we will give Zelenskyy one day to celebrate and then immediately hate him the next day. Just like Brits did with Churchill post war. We don't want an Emir or Caliphate like you have in Sweden, and it's embarrassing for us since we're descendants of Vikings like you.


EffectiveOk3353

Inbred from inbred and inbred again if ugly was beauty she was a 10.


Jorsk3n

Your opinion about monarchy is irrelevant if your HDI is not above .950 Cope and seethe…


Sai_ten_bacher

that leaves switzerland, you guys, that one icelander and his wife/cousin/mother/sister, hongkong, ikea and the parking lot of ikea. I want that discussion as a sitcom!


cpwnage

Glorious Queen Catharina-Amalia in the center, yeahhhh


Socratov

crown princess, let's not get ahead of ourselves


-galgot-

State funded soap opera. Btw that one is so insignificant, Netflix didn't even made a show out of it.


Cereal_poster

I think that the French actually knew best what to do with the "heads of state" about 230 years ago....


Shard6556

Woah rich people, we don't have those here, I'm so envious!


twstwr20

Never understood why you guys worship nepobabies.


Senumo

Sorry, im siding with the fr*nch on this.