Carel van Schelle
 Carel van Schelle    (diplomat) | |
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| Born | 26 August 1913 Wassenaar, Netherlands |
| Died | 5 November 1987 (Age 74) Aldaar, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
Dutch diplomat from patrician background. College van Vertrouwensmannen. Ambassador to NATO and OECD 1959-1961, then high ranking courtier for the royal family. Attended Bilderberg/1967
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Carel Jan van Schelle was a Dutch diplomat and court servant. Having senior positions at the royal court, he attended the 1967 Bilderberg meeting.
Family
Van Schelle is a descendant of the patrician Van Schelle family and a son of Henri Richard Alexander van Schelle (1889-1918) and Hillegonda Maria Meissner (1892-1978). His mother remarried twice more after his father's death. In 1938 he married Mrs. Marie Elisabeth (Poek) van Bevervoorden tot Oldemeule (1911-2018), scion of the noble Van Bevervoorden family, with whom he had three children. In his second marriage, he married Elsie Rose Headde (1919-2005) from London in 1955, with whom he had two more children. His first wife died 80 years after his first marriage at the age of 107, his second 50 years after his second marriage at the age of 85.[1][2]
Education
In 1932 he graduated from gymnasium A in Deventer. He then studied law in Leiden University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1934 and his master's degree in 1938. In the academic year 1936-1937 he was second assessor at the Leiden Student Corps.
Diplomat
At the beginning of 1940 he was appointed ambassador's attaché. In May 1945 he was appointed by the College van Vertrouwensmannen as one of the two secretaries, whose task was to act as its representative from the time liberation until the return of the government to the Netherlands and thus prevent a temporary power vacuum from arising.
In June he was appointed member of the Purge Committee of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Agriculture. With effect from 1 July 1945 he was appointed ambassador's attaché of the second class and became second secretary at the embassy in Paris. In 1949 he was involved in the consultations between the Dutch government representatives and those of the Dutch East Indies regarding independence and general secretary of the Dutch delegation to the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference of 1949; he also took part in the Dutch delegation of the United Nations Commission for Indonesia in 1950. In 1953 he was awarded a royal decoration when he was head of political affairs at the High Commissioner's Office in Jakarta. In June 1955 he was appointed Embassy Councilor to Ottawa.
In 1959 he was appointed Dutch minister plenipotentiary to NATO and the OECD in Paris. In 1961 he became head of the Europe directorate at the ministry in The Hague.
Court functions
In 1962, at the request of Queen Juliana, he accompanied Princess Beatrix on a trip through Asia, but she had to break this trip off prematurely due to the death of her grandmother Wilhelmina. In April 1963 she traveled, also with Van Schelle, to Japan, the United States and Canada. From 1 September 1965 he was placed at the disposal of Prince Claus to allow him to integrate into Dutch society through study programs and working visits, while he was also charged with the organization of his secretariat and became his private secretary.
On April 1, 1967, Van Schelle returned to the ministry and was succeeded in his court position by Henrik Jan baron van Asbeck (1924-2011). He became head of the foreign service directorate there. In 1969 he became ambassador in Brussels, succeeding Jan Arend Godert baron de Vos van Steenwijk (1908-1978). in Brussels, his work included concluding trade agreements between the Benelux on the one hand and Romania and the Soviet Union on the other. In 1974 he intervened in party politics to show displeasure at Relus ter Beek's remark that the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have too much power.
On 1 June 1975 he was appointed Grand Officer in Extraordinary Service of the Queen, and in 1976 Chamberlain in Extraordinary Service. In February 1978 it was announced that he would be appointed as successor to JJL Baron van Lynden (1913-1989) as head and grand master of the royal household, he was appointed as such on August 1, 1978.
In 1973 he had already been asked to contribute to a report on the modernization of the royal household; Beatrix intended to bring it to a much more business-like level. Under his leadership, a more official, ministry-based, clearer hierarchical structure was introduced. As of January 1, 1981, he also succeeded Van Lynden as Chancellor of the House Order. On January 1, 1982, he was succeeded as Grand Master by former diplomat Hans Jonkman, but he remained Chancellor of the House Order until October 1, 1983.[3]
CJ van Schelle died four years later at the age of 74.
Event Witnessed
| Event | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1967 | St John's College (Cambridge) UK United Kingdom | Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge) |
References
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