I do think this connection is pretty special. I know that the Prime Ministers had a conversation yesterday committing themselves again to this historic friendship. We held two minutes of silence at 11am. If you would like to observe this today, listen to Andre Rieu’s Il Silenzio ,a piece commissioned on the 20th anniversary in 1965.
There is a lot of emotion, nostalgia and history tied up in this for me. So much so that when we visited the Netherlands for the first time, it felt like a homecoming of sorts, with a knowing that went to the heart. We love visiting and could imagine spending some extended time there. I only have two elderly Tantes left from that first generation but many wonderful cousins and being together is pretty special.