this week was the second tuesday of september, it was the time for the queen to deliberate her speech in front of the parliament and to open the new round for the kingdom's financial year. sitting elegantly in her golden carriage, she passed the crowds from the gate of nooreinde to the hall of the knight at the binnenhof. as usual, the common people was packing the streets and their immense shadows were merging with the shadows of trees along korte voorhout. a late summer, yet the old tradition furnished the season.
