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 […]
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The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – The life of Princess Beatrix
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 […]