Subject: Re: ca-nl<br/>
Date: Dec 08, 2002 @ 14:19<br/>
Author: anton_zeilinger &lt;anton_zeilinger@hotmail (&quot;anton_zeilinger &lt;anton_zeilinger@...&gt;&quot; &lt;anton_zeilinger@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-592246147">Hello Kevin!<br/>
<br/>
--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Kevin Meynell &lt;kevin@m...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I suppose I was wondering out loud whether the enclave was actually <br/>
 </span></blockquote>created <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; in advance of the birth, or whether it was &#39;created&#39; <br/>
 </span></blockquote>retrospectively. I&#39;m <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; not sure that governments with more pressing problems (i.e. being <br/>
 </span></blockquote>involved <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; in a war) would waste time worrying about such legal niceties ;-)<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>By now I am sure that this act of parliament really did occur, since <br/>
it can be found on almost any homepage about the birth of Princess <br/>
Margriet, and the reason given is very logical: Due to a Dutch law <br/>
that required any heir to the throne to be born on Dutch soil, <br/>
Canadian Parliament had taken the extraordinary step of declaring the <br/>
hospital room where the baby was born to be the territory of the <br/>
Netherlands for the duration of the delivery.<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/celebratingcanada/99-05.asp">http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/celebratingcanada/99-05.asp</a><br/>
<br/>
This seems to be quite logical, and I don&#39;t believe it was made up. <br/>
Of course the place where a baby is born doesn&#39;t SEEM very important, <br/>
but, don&#39;t forget, this baby was third in line to the throne, and a <br/>
few years later, when her mother became queen, she was second in <br/>
line. And of course these countries had a war to win, but this act of <br/>
parliament was a part of this effort, albeit a small one! To ensure <br/>
stability in a post-war Europe, any severe legal problems had to be <br/>
avoided at any cost! What if this Princess would have been in the <br/>
position to become queen? Nothing less than a severe constitutional <br/>
crisis in post-war NL, and that was to be avoided! This doesn&#39;t seem <br/>
THAT unimportant to me.<br/>
<br/>
Greetings,<br/>
<br/>
Anton<br/>
<br/>
PS: Please excuse my insisting on this legal stuff, you have to <br/>
understand, I&#39;m a law student ;-)</div>