Queen 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 […]
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The life of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands
On Monday morning 31 January 1938, Queen Wilhelmina’s first grandchild, the future Queen Beatrix, was born at Soestdijk Palace. She was given the names Beatrix […]
A very special dress
In the middle of a super busy exhibition about the 80s (now closed), there was a corner about the inauguration of Queen Beatrix of the […]
Women of Orange Exhibition at the Jan Cunen Museum in Oss
The Women of Orange – Portraits of Five Queens Exhibition in Oss in the Netherlands has only just opened two weeks and already looks like […]
The Inauguration Church of the Dutch Royal Family: The Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
The Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam is not as new as the name might suggest. It has been a religious site since the 14th […]
Queens Regnant – Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
The future Queen Wilhelmina was born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague as the daughter of King William III and his second wife Emma […]