What Queen Elizabeth can learn from Queen Beatrix | Simon Jenkins

Britain's monarch enjoys huge popular support – but therein lies the royals' vulnerability. They should look to the Netherlands

Today the Queen of the Netherlands, Beatrix, quietly abdicated in favour of her son. The Dutch people took to the streets with Orange joy. There were no republican riots, as there were when she took the throne in 1980. The inauguration of her son, Willem-Alexander, though in a church, took place without religious ceremony. The paraphernalia of monarchy – crowns, orbs...