A letter that Prince Bernhard wrote to his wife on 18 September 1956:
Dear Lula,
Due to our conversation of two days ago, and thinking about all that ha happened I want to write a few things down.
1) The children and I do love you, but you and not your friends from the circle of Miss Hofmans!
2) The children and I truly want you back - but in a way that we can be sure that you can not be influenced badly anylonger. We want the real, old Lula back, but not the gramaphone record with the words etc. of the Van Heeckerens or others. Because it is scary to see and to hear how you are hypnotised, so to speak, by them and by all they say and think. This undermines our confidence in the future forever.
3) You have many good friends, who are ready for you, to take the positions of the friends of Miss Hofmans (those who do not love you but who use you for their own good) while the ones that I mean do love you. (...)
Read the bible, without help. I hope and pray tht i fidn your situation bettered when I return and that you will hear Gods voice, without 'translator' because in my opinion that is a incorrect one. Gods word doesn't need a tanslator, when people claim that they do, then those people are influenced by wrong sources.
I will pray for you and the children, that you may see the true light and true love and that you may be part of it again.
Don't forget that Bernhard was,and always behaved like,a conniving denying spoiled rotten german boy ( who's Ich habe es nicht gewüsst is still a popular phrase...).Not to speak of that woman,his mother,the haunty taunty conniving former german baroness,( who lived with her lover,a self proclaimed Colonel by the name of Pantchoulidzew,(Who btw,as it was proven,later helped to embazzle the Lockheed bribe on a Swiss bankaccount for Bernhard) who later thought it beneath her to attend the wedding of dear Pietie ( Margriet) because she married a commoner,dear Pieter.
That nonsens about the Cold Loo and the Warm Lo (Loo meaning in english lea,an open space in the woods,instead of in this case,a royal flush).
"Cold Loo" referring to Het Loo Palace,residence of Queen Wilhelmina and Warm Loo is "Warmelo" the castle purchased by Bernhard,with or without bribes,for his mother.
It was somehow another silly story that the 4 Princesses preferred Armgard over Wilhelmina.This is not true.The Princesses spend many a summer at the grounds of Het Loo Palace with their grandmother there and to this day hold dear memories of these times.All four of 'm.
But none of the present "media-minkukels" seem to know that,small wonder,they were not even planned at the time,and thruthfull stories never sell,gotta make it juicyer a la van der Linden.
Van Heeckeren van Molecaten knew Bernhard and HE introduced Hofmans to him.Koot is a newcomer in this story.It was after a while,maybe two years or so,that he,Bernhard,wanted to put Hofmans to the test,and came up with that horse,and what could be done to make it ever win a throphy.She failed and gave the sillyest answer and it was then Bernhard saw she was a fraud,it was then he told Juliana so,and it was then he also said the van Heeckerens had to leave as through Hofmans,that aristo family clique got way to much influence over the Queen,and only because of that,not because of an overdose of braincells,Vna Heeckeren van Molecaten was born without much of a cell in his head and if it wasn't for Hofmans,would never have gotten his position as private secretary to HM.But Hofmans could easily use van H as he was to dumb to see through all the conniving,busy as he was,with his wife Rita and his mother the Grandmistress,to play their own game and gain even more influence that way.As that was the game of the day at the then Court,individuals and whole groups of courtiers against each and everyone else just to gain a influancial position,a snake nest,it had to be rotted out.
And like I said before,all this impregnated our present beloved Queen and it was then and there she made up her strongwilled mind that that was never ever to happen again.Hence the strictly managed present day Court and hence her insisting to be addressed as Majesty instead of her mothers "mevrouw".There had to be a distance and their had to be brains instead of empty titles and a clustering of aristo's at Court who would again get the silly idea it was actually them that "ruled",and thus claim a position thet would never posess.
Are you still with me?
Maybe you've already gathered I'm not much of a Bernhard fan,yes he did a lot for our country,he really did,like bribing the Perons on behalve of the Dutch government with millions,a Royal Order and Evita with a stunning emarald necklace made by Steltman The Hague,in order to win a railway order.Ofcourse it all payed off,and as even the governments bribed to gain whatever,how easy it must have been for our spoiled rotten german boy to jump the bandwagon and put a dime here and a nickle there in his own pocket while he took the ride?Small wonder,that because of that alone,he wasn't willing to leave the Palace at Juliana's request.All that gone?Imagine.Never.So,he saw to it that an interview was published in a German magazine,and spilled all the beans on the crisis at Court.
In time to save the Monarchy from the ultimate embarrassment,but most of all he saved his own butt.
Just a little side info on how things also were at Court at the time in light of yesterdays book by mr.Fasseur.