The Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, has announced that the royals would henceforth stop using a historic golden coach, which features images that glorifies the country’s colonial past, amid controversy over the Netherlands’ slavery links.
Called ‘Tribute from the Colonies’, the image—which is on the left panel of the coach—depicts black and Asian people kneeling and offering goods, including cocoa and sugarcane, to a seated young white woman on a throne representing the Netherlands.