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This week, at 68, after half a century of rule, Wilhelmina leaves the throne in favor of her sturdy daughter, 39-year-old Juliana.

Queen Juliana on the cover of Time magazine in 1948.Just 50 years ago, while cannon boomed and church bells rang, an 18-year-old girl with a sweet and melancholy face walked across the ancient square to Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk.* A purple mantle was on her shoulders, a diadem in her hair. She was Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange, about to become… View large cover

 
 

God Disposes

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Wilhelmina said she would give up the throne in favor of Princess Juliana.

The sun was almost down and the quiet purple dusk of the lowlands was rising in the east when the Queen spoke to her people. Housewives fixing supper put down their pots and men in cafés forgot their drinks; bicyclists in the streets stopped to listen at loudspeakers. Queen Wilhelmina’s…

Long Live the Queen!

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Tired Queen Wilhelmina announced that, “for reasons of health,” she would “temporarily” transfer the business of ruling to her strapping daughter, Princess Juliana.

Queen Wilhelmina was tired. For 49 years, ever since she was a girl of 18 (whom Playwright Edmond Rostand once described as “the little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips”), she had worn the crown—or the somewhat knockabout hats which she preferred.

Like a competent…

A Little Bit for Holland

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In Java jungles and in occupied Holland Dutchmen are awaiting the news of The Netherlands’ Crown Princess Juliana giving birth to her third child.

In Java jungles Dutch guerrillas waited last week for the news. In London Queen Wilhelmina and ministers of The Netherlands Government in Exile fidgeted. In Occupied Holland people kept watch in doorways while inside their homes forbidden radio sets were tuned to London. In “a little bit of Holland” in…

Flying Visit

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Prince Bernhard appeared suddenly in Ottawa. He had flown the Atlantic for a two-week visit with his family. They planned a trip to the U.S., a call on Pres. Roosevelt at the White House.

For nearly a year Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands has lived quietly in Canada with her two daughters, separated almost for the first time in her life from her mother, tough-fibered Queen Wilhelmina. Also in England with the Queen has stayed the Princess’ fast-driving, German-born consort, Prince Bernhard.

No…

Good Omen

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Wilhelmina, Juliana and her kids left for Canada. A Dutch cruiser brought the war’s first royal refugees to the New World.

With three echoing cheers for Juliana, three more for a free Holland, the plump blue-clad jack-tars of the Dutch cruiser that brought the war’s first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her…

Juliana Again

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Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a newborn child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, prayed she will have a male heir.

Tired of doing water colors of Dutch cows recumbent upon flat fields, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands spent last week in Switzerland doing water colors of upstanding cows browsing against a background of jagged peaks. While Her Majesty thus rusticated, in preparation for her Jubilee in September, it was confirmed…

Expectant Broadcast

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Crown Princess Juliana stepped to the microphone and broadcasted the news she was expecting a child.

Happily back in Holland after all the fun she and her Prince Consort had in England at the time of George VI’s Coronation was Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. She was in such high good humor last week that, stepping to the microphone in Amsterdam, Her Royal Highness became…

23-Lb. Surprise

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On her honeymoon, Princess Juliana lost weight.

Plenty of sound, solid flesh is what ample Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands thinks should be on Crown Princess Juliana. From this opinion many a prospective royal suitor of past years differed and so did the jolly Princess, who used to make wry jokes about the thickness of her calves…

“Other Juliana”

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As a mark of respect, Juliana was the only one to get married last week. There was one exception, the “other Juliana” Petronella van der Meer, born on the same moment as H.R.H. Juliana.

Never was a story more Dutch than that last week of “The Other Juliana.” It had been decided by Her Majesty’s Government that, as a mark of respect to Crown Princess Juliana, she and her bridegroom would be the only persons married in The Netherlands on their wedding day. The…

Serene & Royal

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Report of the marriage between Princess Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard.

Marked was the vigor last week of the Knickerbocker aristocracy of Manhattan in observing the joyous marriage day of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands.
The newsorgan of most of these aristocrats is the New York Herald Tribune. Warmly it editorialized: “There is no country in Europe…

Royal Wedding

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Crown Princess Juliana marries German and Nazi Prince Bernhard (“Benno”) zu Lippe-Biesterfeld Jan 7th. The Dutch give a yacht as a wedding present.

An oath of allegiance to his future mother-in-law, Queen Wilhelmina, was sworn on the Parade Ground at The Hague last week by German and Nazi Prince Bernhard (“Benno”) zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, handsomely accoutered as a Dutch hussar. His Highness was made simultaneously a Navy lieutenant and an Army captain, while his…

Sour Grapes

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Speculation arizes in England about the ‘hushed up’ royal wedding between Juliana and Bernhard.

Since matronly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and her massive daughter Crown Princess Juliana still uphold standards once upheld in England by King George, deep was the resentment of Dutchmen last week as some British journals printed sour-grape stories striving to make it appear that Juliana is some what the…

Popular Surprise

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Princess Juliana presented her fiancé Prince Bernhard, to the Dutch audience. Her choice was welcomed in the Netherlands as a complete surprise and almost completely popular.

With their broad faces cracking wide in happy smiles one hard-raining evening last week, groups of loyal Dutch gathered under dripping trees at The Hague around a plain, white-painted house which anyone is free to approach. It was the Royal Palace of that good woman Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau who for 46…

Gaspers for Five

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Crown Princess Juliana caught smoking in her room only to found out it was not her mother, but her tolerating father.

Even in her own royal residence on the outskirts of The Hague, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is supposed to obey the rule of her august mother Queen Wilhelmina: “Unmarried ladies of the Court shall not smoke.”

Recently, according to Dutch Court gossips last week, the Crown Princess with…

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