Claudia de Breij was completely herself during conversations with Amalia | Stars

entertainment">“I immediately thought: I must be doing all kinds of things wrong in terms of etiquette, but they either like me or not. I cannot be something I am not. And that was also in the contact with her,” says De Breij. “If you want to get to know someone, you have to get to know yourself a little too. If I suddenly start pretending to be different than I am, there will be no real contact.”

entertainment">De Breij thought it was special to have such a casual conversation with the heir to the throne, although ‘everything is back to normal in no time’. The two went out together in the car of the comedian. „Then you are standing there in front of Huis ten Bosch palace and you think: ‘but wait a minute, I mustn’t get into a collision with the heir apparent’. That is immediately over and then we listened to après-ski music. Every now and then it was a matter of switching to: this is normal now.”

entertainment">De Breijs book about Amalia was published last Tuesday. She wrote the portrait on the occasion of the upcoming 18th birthday of the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima.

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