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 – 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 […]
Greet Hofmans – Queen Juliana’s Rasputin
She was once called the Rasputin of the Dutch Royal family – Greet Hofmans was a faith healer who nearly brought down the Dutch monarchy. […]
Royal Travel at the Spoorwegmuseum
Royalty must travel in style and so the Dutch Railway Museum (Spoorwegmuseum) has dedicated an entire exhibition to Royal Travel. The exhibition surprisingly opens in […]
Princess Irene deeply hurt by new biography on Queen Juliana
Princess Irene, the sister of former Queen Beatrix and aunt to current King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, is “deeply hurt” by the content of the […]