The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Juliana departs for Canada
The Netherlands had been neutral during the First World War, but the German invasion on 10 May 1940 changed everything. Juliana and her two daughters […]
Juliana of the Netherlands
The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Wilhelmina escapes to England
The Netherlands had been neutral during the First World War, but the German invasion on 10 May 1940 changed everything. Juliana and her two daughters […]
The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Juliana: The twilight years (Part five)
Read part four here. The day before her official abdication, Juliana looked back on her reign with the words, “Life is beautiful but hard.” The […]
The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Juliana: Mother & Queen (Part four)
Read part three here. Juliana had been dreading wearing the crown, and she thought it a huge sacrifice. Her first act as Queen was to […]
The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Juliana: Queen-in-waiting (Part three)
Read part two here. On 10 July 1936, the dashing Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld proposed to Princess Juliana and after some consideration, she accepted him. […]
The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Wilhelmina returns home from exile
Queen Wilhelmina had been forced to flee after the German invasion in 1940, and she spent most of her time in exile in England with […]