This week, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands told a local Dutch paper, Telegraaf, that for the past 20 years, he has been working as a co-pilot for KLM Airline – even after he acceded to the throne in 2013.
“I find flying simply fantastic,” he told the newspaper, according to a BBC translation. “You can’t take your problems with you off the ground. You can completely switch off for a while and focus on something else.”
He said that even in airports, he was rarely identified as the king, and is currently being retrained to fly the Boeing 737.
Josh Trips 