This week, the Austrian television station ORF was told to remove photographs of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, her son Prince Constantijn and his family from its website. The pictures were that of the royals arriving in Lech for their annual skiing vacation.
Dutch Photo Press/Patrick van Katwijk
The Dutch royal household felt the pictures violated a mediacode, where private photos of the royal family are not allowed to be published. This despite that ORF showed video of the family arriving at the ski resort.
Media coverage of the Dutch royals coming to Lech has been existence for about 50 years. But this year, there was no photo call because Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and his family are currently in Vancouver for the Olympics.
This is the not the first time the House of Orange’s mediacode caused problems with the media. Last year, Willem-Alexander sued the Associated Press for photographing and publishing pictures of he and his family skiing in Argentina. The Crown Prince won his case even though many of those in the media felt that violated freedom of the press.
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