King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is expected to make a formal apology for the country’s history of slavery on Saturday, the 160-year anniversary of slavery abolition in the Netherlands.
The king is expected to address the issue in a manner similar to the Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who made a formal apology for slavery to the Dutch public in December of last year.
“It is true that no one alive now is personally to blame for slavery,” Rutte said last year in his speech.