Formation procession
His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, His Royal Highness Prince Carlos, His Highness Prince Maurits and Mr Bernardo Guillermo, the oldest children of the four daughters of Her Royal Highness Princess Juliana, will follow the funeral carriage from Noordeinde Palace in The Hague in a State berlin. At the Netherlands Defence College in Rijswijk, Her Majesty the Queen, Her Royal Highness Princess Irene, Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet and Her Royal Highness Princess Christina will join the procession in the glass State berlin.
The other members of the immediate family will travel from Noordeinde Palace to Delft Town Hall by car and in the royal motor coach.
First part of the route: from Noordeinde Palace to the Netherlands Defence College:
- Mounted escort of honour of the Royal Military Constabulary (commander and 12 officers)
- Mounted escort of honour of the National Police Services Agency (commander and 24 officers)
- Equerry-in-chief, two equerries and coachman-in-chief
- First carriage: State funeral carriage, drawn by an eight-horse team of Frisians
- Escort of two aides-de-camp to HM the Queen
- Crown Equerry
- Second carriage: flower carriage, drawn by a pair of Gelderland horses
- Third carriage: State berlin, with HRH the Prince of Orange, HRH Prince Carlos, HH Prince Maurits and Mr Bernardo Guillermo. This carriage is drawn by a pair of Frisian horses
- Mounted cavalry escort of honour (commander and 24 officers)
Second part of the route: from the Netherlands Defence College to the Nieuwe Kerk:
- Military escort of honour on foot, leading section, comprising: Royal Military Band, Commander, honour detachment of the Royal Netherlands Navy (100 personnel), honour detachment of the Royal Netherlands Army (100 personnel) and honour detachment of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (100 personnel)
- Mounted escort of honour of the Royal Military Constabulary (commander and 12 officers)
- Mounted escort of honour of the National Police Services Agency (commander and 24 officers)
- Equerry-in-chief, two equerries and coachman-in-chief
- First carriage: State funeral carriage, drawn by an eight-horse team of Frisians
- Escort of two aides-de-camp to HM the Queen
- Crown Equerry
- Second carriage: flower carriage, drawn by a pair of Gelderland horses
- Third carriage: glass State berlin, with HM the Queen, HRH Princess Irene, HRH Princess Margriet and HRH Princess Christina. This carriage is drawn by a team of four Gelderland horses
- Fourth carriage: State berlin, with HRH the Prince of Orange, HRH Prince Carlos, HH Prince Maurits and Mr Bernardo Guillermo. This carriage is drawn by a pair of Frisian horses
- Mounted cavalry escort of honour (commander and 24 officers)
- Military escort of honour on foot, rear section, comprising:
Air Force Band, Commander, honour detachment of the Royal
Netherlands Navy (100 personnel), honour detachment of the Royal
Netherlands Army (100 personnel) and honour detachment of the Royal
Netherlands Air Force (100 personnel)
The procession will be preceded and followed by a mounted escort of four officers of the Haaglanden Regional Police Force at all times.
Hearse
This hearse was used for the funerals of Emma, the Queen Mother (in 1934), Prince Hendrik (also in 1934), Princess Wilhelmina (in 1962) and Prince Claus in October 2002.
The undercarriage of the hearse was originally part of a Coupé d’Orsay supplied to the Royal House in 1871. In 1886 it was altered to make an ordinary coupé for Queen Emma. The body of the carriage was replaced with wooden boards in 1920. A new superstructure and fresh upholstery were designed in 1993.
The hearse is painted grey. At the front is a one-man coach-box, and the superstructure stands on wooden boards. Both superstructure and box are upholstered in purple cloth trimmed with silver thread. The sides are draped in white. The roof is embellished with white ostrich plumes at each corner, and is surmounted by the gilded royal crown that once graced the Glass Carriage.
The coachman will use white reins and the horses will have white rosettes on their bridles.
Trappings
Funeral carriage Trappings with
crown
Flower carriage Trappings with crown
Glass State berlin State trappings with the arms of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands
State berlin State trappings of the Prince of Orange