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