Queen Beatrix will officially abdicate on the 30th of April, which is also Queen's Day, the most colourful and chaotic celebration on the Dutch calendar.
A knight with a gleaming plume, and most magnificently dressed, held him before him on the horse, and thus they rode through the wood to the old town of Bordingborg, and that was a large and very lively town.
Entertainment is also important a little further south on Grafton Street, a lively shopping precinct known for its buskers and proud to be a launch pad for many international musical acts.
There are church weddings with a great deal of fanfare; there are weddings on mountain-tops with guests barefooted; and there have been weddings on the ocean floor with oxygen tanks for the guests.