Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group.

Nobody outside the innermost palace councils knows exactly what Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told the three eminent statesmen whom she herself had drafted to help mend the rift in the royal family. But the worries of Netherlanders were set at rest at least momentarily last August, when they read…