Some participants from The Netherlands ...

Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Shell plc
Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Co-Chair Bilderberg Meetings; Professor of Economics, Leiden University
Hamers, Ralph (NLD), CEO, UBS Group AG
Hoekstra, Wopke (NLD), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Huët, Jean Marc (NLD), Chairman, Heineken NV
Willem Alexander, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister
Wennink, Peter (NLD), President and CEO, ASML Holding NV

Willem Alexander is the grandson of Bilderberg founder and fomer chair Prins Bernhard von Lippe Biesterfeld

Nearly lost the House of Orange through the Lockheed bribery (commission) affair.

Declassified correspondences between Kingdon Gould Jr and Henry Kissinger showed that Kissinger was informed of the bribes in 1975.

State Department cable shows exposure of Lockheed bribes threatened NATO's stability

TOP SECRET cable in the Kissinger archives shows alarm over Church Committee revelations that could have led to Netherlands withdrawing from NATO - or even restructuring their government

A State Department cable in the Central Intelligence Agency's Kissinger archive claims that pending revelations from the Church Committee would rock the Netherlands, potentially forcing it to leave NATO. Even more drastically, the memo warned that this scandal could lead to "the restructuring of the Dutch political system."

Germany loses over one hundred Air Force pilots in Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter

'Sapere aude'