The Netherlands and Britain share a colonial history. In fact they became adversaries in a corporate sense, fighting over the spoils in many wars and areas, e.g. Boer war. It's a commonly held view that Britain has one of the worst colonial records for widespread cruelty to indigenous people but no European power comes out looking great. Both countries seem unable to properly move on from that era. The institutions of oppression remain in place like vestigial organs e.g. royal families alive and well. The British just built a new aircraft carrier. You don't need one of these to defend an island, it's an offensive weapon and another vestige of the colonial mindset that lives like a disease in the hearts of the British.