Jerry Lampen/Reuters Farewell, Queen Beatrix.Subjects of the Dutch colony of Nieuw-Amsterdam, arise! After 33 years as your benevolent overseer, your queen has forsaken you.
Queen Beatrix is queen no more.
Maxima, the queen consort to the new king, Willem-Alexander, may take her spot as reigning female personage. But Beatrix shall not be replaced, not now, or ever.
And so we ask, City Room readers: what are you doing today to mark Beatrix’s exit from the throne?
