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Dutch King Reveals Secret Life As Part-Time Pilot On KLM Airline

For more than two decades, King Willem-Alexander has regularly served as a co-pilot on commercial flights. He is rarely recognized, he told De Telegraaf newspaper.

The king of the Netherlands moonlights as a part-time commercial pilot, he told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

King Willem-Alexander has spent 21 years as

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