Dutch Royals Swap Orange for Blue as They Cheer for the Netherlands, Then Curaçao at the World Cup
The royal couple flew from Houston to Kansas City and switched scarves to support Curaçao, which earned its first World Cup point.
- On Saturday, Netherlands King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima, and Princess Ariane watched the World Cup Group match between Ecuador and Curacao in Kansas City.
- Earlier on Saturday, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima cheered the Dutch past Sweden in Houston, moving the Netherlands one step closer to the knockout round.
- After a quick flight north, the royal couple swapped their bright orange scarves from Het Oranje Legioen for bright blue ones to support The Blue Wave in Kansas City.
- Willem-Alexander told RTL-TV the tournament is an "extra-special World Cup" because Curacao is a constituent country within the Kingdom, giving them two teams to cheer for.
- Historically, visits by sitting monarchs to the region are rare; Queen Ann of Romania visited the Liberty Memorial in the 1920s, and King Gustav XVI of Sweden stopped in Lindsborg in the 1970s.
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