"I have always considered it as an extraordinary privilege to be able to put a big part of my life at the service of our country and in accordance with my task to add substance to my kingship, " said Beatrix, who acceded to the throne when her mother, Queen Juliana, abdicated in 1980.
Add to that the enormous task of merging Digital Equipment Corp. into Compaq and sorting out the resulting 68, 000-employee roster, and it's little wonder that Capellas' predecessor, Eckhard Pfeiffer, was shown the door.