荷兰女王将让位于其长子
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px][b]Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has announced she is abdicating in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander. [/b][/size][/font][/color][color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px][b]荷兰女王贝娅特丽克丝宣布退位，推选她儿子威廉-亚历山大即位。[/b][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]In a pre-recorded address broadcast on TV, she said she would formally stand down on 30 April. [/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]The [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/91731.html]queen[/url], who is approaching her 75th birthday, said she had been thinking about this moment for several years and that now was "the moment to lay down my crown".[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Queen Beatrix has been head of state since 1980, when her mother abdicated.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]In the short televised statement, the queen said it was time for the throne to be held by "a new generation", adding that her son was ready to be king.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Prince Willem-Alexander, 45, is married to Maxima Zorreguieta, a former investment banker from Argentina, and has three young children. [/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]He is a trained pilot and an expert in water management.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]He will become the Netherlands' first king since Willem III, who died in 1890.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Speaking on television immediately after the abdication announcement, [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/91731.html]Dutch[/url] Prime Minister Mark Rutte paid tribute to the queen.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]"Since her coronation... she has applied herself heart and soul for Dutch society," he said.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Abdication 'tradition'[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Queen Beatrix is the sixth monarch from the House of Orange-Nassau, which has ruled the Netherlands since the early 19th Century.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Correspondents say she is extremely popular with most Dutch people, but her abdication was widely expected and will not provoke a constitutional crisis. [/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Under Dutch law, the monarch has few powers and the role is considered ceremonial.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]In recent decades it has become the tradition for the monarch to abdicate. [/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Queen Beatrix's mother Juliana resigned the throne in 1980 on her 70th birthday, and her grandmother Wilhelmina abdicated in 1948 at the age of 68.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]Queen [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/91731.html]Beatrix[/url] will be 75 on Thursday.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]She has remained active in recent years, but her reign has also seen [b]traumatic（创伤的）[/b] events. [/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]In 2009 a would-be attacker killed eight people when he drove his car into crowds watching the queen and other members of the royal family in a national holiday parade. [/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000][font=tahoma, Helvetica, arial][size=14px]In March last year her second son, Prince Friso, was struck by an [b]avalanche（雪崩）[/b] in Austria and remains in a coma.[/size][/font][/color]
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[/size][/font][/color] It's a new Dynasty {:6_200:}how about British~
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