Brochure to Explain Set-Up of Dutch Kingdom

‘One Kingdom, four countries’ is the title of a brochure issued by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague in an effort to explain to the outside world that the Dutch kingdom consists of the Netherlands, which is part of the European Union, jointly with the autonomous countries in the Caribbean, being Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten, and the BES islands (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba). This constellation becomes even more complicated once one tries to explain that a King is the head of state, and then his wife, the Queen, governs the overseas countries, councils of ministers, commissioners, and what have you. To make it even more complicated, as part of the Dutch Kingdom, the inhabitants of these islands also carry the same European passport as anyone living in the EU. The brochure is meant to clarify structures for whoever wants to deal with parts of the Kingdom.