Queen Juliana (1909-2004) and Prince Bernhard (1911-2004)


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some pictures from Bernard's life
 

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some more.....
 

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Some APL pictures of Prince Bernhard's life.
 

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from Polfoto and Gettyimages
 

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what great photos i love the older once
is there more of them when newly wed how old was he when he married Juliana
 
Two formal pictures of Bernhard Sr. I have found from Yahoo News photos.
 

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Yes you're right. This one is the Jumbo V. The ship in Porto Ercole is the Jumbo VI.
 
It was announced today that the Queen has given permission for historian Cees Fasseur to have access to the personal written archives of Juliana & Bernhard.

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=9309

Fasseur is writing a book about the conflict that took place within the Palace from 1948 to 1957. It was during this period that Juliana developed a close relationship with the faith healer Greet Hofmans. Juliana had hoped that Ms. Hofmans could heal her daughter Christina's eye ailment. Stories were leaked to the press that Ms. Hofmans had become a Rasputin-like figure and the palace was divided into two camps: those who supported Juliana and those who supported Bernhard and his wish to have Ms. Hofmans break ties with the RF. The affair caused a crisis within the royal couple's marriage and also within the Monarchy (rumours of abdication and divorce were discussed by the press).

More on Greet Hofmans at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greet_Hofmans

Also the RF's official website has a little blurb on Greet http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/content.jsp?objectid=6079
 
on the Benelux royals MB I read that 5 glasses of Juliana were auctioned at Christies and raised 4560 euros!
 
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From my photobucket (thanks for the advice you gave a while ago Alexandria): my favourite picture of Juliana. Sadly not to big and with all the other things around it. I remember getting this paper on a sunday, the day after she died, and being amazed how one picture could say so many words (in the bigger version the sparkle in the eyes is noticable) about a person. The headline says simply: 'Goodbye sweet Juliana', which struck me as rather nice.
 
Marengo said:
From my photobucket (thanks for the advice you gave a while ago Alexandria): my favourite picture of Juliana. Sadly not to big and with all the other things around it. I remember getting this paper on a sunday, the day after she died, and being amazed how one picture could say so many words (in the bigger version the sparkle in the eyes is noticable) about a person. The headline says simply: 'Goodbye sweet Juliana', which struck me as rather nice.

This is indeed a wonderful picture of Juliana Marengo!

I have not been following the Dutch royals for very long (less than 8 years) and am only starting to learn much about them, but I have loved all the wonderful anecdotes about how unpretentious and down to earth Queen Juliana could be.

Around the time of her passing, there were many wonderful stories shared about how personable the Queen was, such as how one time she showed up for a royal engagement and commented on how wherever she went there always seemed to be the smell of freshly painted walls much to her bemusement, or how she liked to just "pop in" for tea with Dutch residents.

I think the Dutch were very fortunate to have such a special Queen.
 
We were very fortunate with Juliana indeed! For the dutch, Juliana almost couldn't do anything wrong from the day she was born untill the day she died. She has always been the publics darling, especially because she seemed 'one of us' (which she could mix with so much glamour that would put Maxima in the shadows). Anyway, here a lovely picture (from my photobucket!) of Juliana, Bernhard and their two eldest daughters, probably taken in Canada during the war, apparently they love polishing furniture in over there in Ottawa :p.

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btw, the flight from The Netherlands to England was quite eventfull. The Crownprincess, her 2 daughters and her husband were transported in a money-van of th dutch bank, to the harbour. Juliana was sitting on her knees, with 2 big boxes containing the family jewels, while Berhard and his companions were armed and got into a fight with a german airplane.
 
Glitter!

Here's a couple of pics, courtesy of the Corbis vaults.

(UK) Coronation Ball 1937

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Enthronement 1948

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Thanks Warren! Juliana certainly knew how to play with her jewelrybox(es). A shame we never see the peacock rubies anymore these days (Juliana is wearing the necklace on the 2nd picture). Notice as well that on the 2nd picture, her enthronement, she is wearing red, white and blue :).
Now, here the entire group:

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Queen Juliana was very popular in Italy too. Once I saw a picture of her washing her laundry while she was spending the summmer holidays at Argentario (TuscanY)
 
Marengo said:
And from my photobucket (but originally from www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl), a nice poem about the engagement of Princess Juliana and Prince Carl of Sweden!!!

That's a great poem, Marengo! Thanks for posting it, I really enjoyed it. :)
 
It is rather funny, considering she never got engaged to the chap (when the negocciations failed the dutch ambassador to London, who had to arrange the thing, was taken ill to bed for two weeks). In Holland people were however akmost certain about the engagement, photographs were placed in shopwindows, songs like these were made and small books/articles were written about Carl (who is the brother of Crownprincess Martha of Norway and Queen Astrid of the Belgians). The funny thing about the song is that it already is wrning Juliana, not to let the guy slip, which was exactly what she did. Note that the song affectionally refers to 'Juliaantje' as if they were referring to family, I remember my grandmother usually calling her that way as well.

I believe Wilhelmina blamed it on a danish/norwegian/greek conspiracy, headed by Queen Maud of Norway. At other times the belgian King and Queen were suspected, because they wanted the younger brother of the King Prince Karel) to marry Juliana.
In reality Carl didn't care much for Juliana and Juliana didn't care the least for him (she found him to childish, and even according to the dutch ambassador in Sweden, the swedish princes were only interested in cars, parties and women) but for Peter of Greece, who was unsuitable as his great-grandfather owned a casino in Monte Carlo. The dutch ambassador to London later even admitted that Juliana went out of her ways to behave aloof and haughty to the swedish Prince. I wonder if she later on regretted on her decission...
 
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Tosca said:
Queen Juliana was very popular in Italy too. Once I saw a picture of her washing her laundry while she was spending the summmer holidays at Argentario (TuscanY)

Tanks for your reply Tosca, I believe there was a concert held for Juliana in Porto Ercole last year. Organised by an italian princess and attended by Princess Christina (who sung there as well) and Juliana Guillermo. Juliana usually had fun in doing ordinairy household things (though I must say she didn't do it that often), a 'joy' she discovered when she lived in Ottawa.

Queen Beatrix has a house in Tavernelle, Tuscany, but I don't know if Juliana ever visited the place (usually the family went to the matriarch (and patriarch) in Porto Ercole.
 
Here a picture from the same site, Julina received a watch and 3 of her daughters & her husband are admiring it:

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Now three more pictures from www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl:

The first picture shows Princess Juliana holding her youngest daughter Marijke and surrounded by her mother, Queen Wilhelmina and her 3 other daughters.

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During the second worldwar pictures of the RF were made and dropped out of Allied airplanes, to raise the spirits in the Netherlands. This picture shows Juliana, Bernhard and their 3 eldest daughters in Ottawa:

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This one shows the arrival of the small princesses at airport Teuge, in 1945, after the war. A journalist tried to put a microphone under the nose of Princess Beatrix, who replied ' I don't like those things' (Ik hou niet van die dingen).

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Wonderful pictures Marengo! The Royal Dutch National Library has digitised some great high quality pics of the RF. I spent days last summer just going through some of them - I must admit I have a weakness for pics of the four princesses while growing up! Thanks for posting these pics!
 
Thanks Squidgy, I have to confess the same weakness and addiction (for the moment as I am enjoying my photobucket).

Here a picture from Corbis of Queen Juliana surrounded by Crownprince Olav of Norway, Eleonor Roosevelt (such a wonderful woman & a personal friend of Juliana), Crownprincess Martha of Norway and a gentleman whose name I do not know.

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No tiara, but...

Another lovely pic from the dusty Corbis vaults showing a very regal Juliana; sans tiara, but furred, fanned, sashed and bejewelled.

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And with a nice haircut to I must add! She certainly had her glamorous moments! I wish they still used fans like that, it seems so theatrical!
 
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