Скачать или смотреть Crown Prince Willem-Alexander takes part in tree planting ceremony

(23 Apr 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of children gathering at tree
2. Mid of children waiting for Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander to arrive
3. Close of children's wooden clogs
4. Mid of Willem-Alexander arriving
5. Wide of the prince shovelling dirt around base of tree
6. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Jeremy Biekram, schoolboy, aged 9:
"It was nice to do that with the prince."
(Journalist question: Was it difficult?)
"Yes."
7. Mid of prince digging
8. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Margot Berkman, artist who designed the decorative fence around the tree:
"This is unique for the Transvaal neighbourhood, but it will be erected in many places around the Netherlands. It is the decorative fence around the lime tree. I got the commission in 2011 so I've been working in secret for two and a half years. This is the very first one that has been put up."
9. Wide of the prince, children and Berkman, UPSOUND (Dutch) Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander: "You did very well, thanks for your help."
STORYLINE
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander planted a lime tree Tuesday in a park in The Hague, to the strains of the much-maligned "King's Song" playing in the background.
It was one of his last public engagements before he becomes king at a ceremony next week in Amsterdam.
The Prince, who will succeed his mother Queen Beatrix when she abdicates on April 30, shovelled mud around the tree in the neighbourhood park in the Transvaal suburb of The Hague helped by pupils from the nearby Comenius School.
"It was nice to do that with the prince," said nine year old Jeremy Biekram at the ceremony.
Planting lime trees, surrounded by a decorative fence, is a Dutch tradition when a new monarch takes the throne.
Artist Margot Berkman said she had been working on the cast aluminium fence for years.
"I got the commission in 2011 so I've been working in secret for two and a half years," she said. "This is the very first one that has been put up."
Municipalities around the Netherlands are expected to plant at least one of the trees in coming months.


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