We have to talk about Kingsday. Ever since we went from celebrating Queensday on April 30th... to Kingsday on April 27th, something has been very, very wrong.

Is it the way King Willem-Alexander refuses to partake in the traditional Dutch games like koekhappen and spijkerpoepen, as his mother used to?

Or maybe it’s the fact that 'Koninginnedag' just sounds way better than ‘Koningsdag’, which is two annoying syllables shorter? Ugh.

Or perhaps it’s that celebrating a Queen's birthday felt refreshingly progressive & typically Dutch, contrary to celebrating a Kings one? Aren’t we supposed to be toppling the patriarchy? Why reinforce it?

Yes, well obviously it is all of the these. But there one issue that tops the list: Shit weather.