Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962)


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At age twenty, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship to evacuate Paul Kruger from South Africa's embattled Transvaal.
 
CyrilVladisla said:
At age twenty, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship to evacuate Paul Kruger from South Africa's embattled Transvaal.
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Read: the Dutch Government. Since 1848 the King is inviolable, the ministers are responsible. Nothing can happen without ministerial approval. No way a 20 years old (or whatever age) Wilhelmina could "order" warships.
 
Funny enough, that is how it's described on Paul Kruger's wiki page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger

"Kruger left the Transvaal by rail on 11 September 1900—he wept as the train crossed into Mozambique. He planned to board the first outgoing steamer, the*Herzog*of the*German East Africa Line, but was prevented from doing so when, at the behest of the local British Consul, the Portuguese Governor insisted that Kruger stay in port under*house arrest.[n 29]*About a month later*Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands*concluded a deal with Britain to extricate Kruger on a Dutch warship,*HNLMS*Gelderland, and convey him through non-British waters to*Marseille. Kruger was delighted to hear of this but dismayed that Gezina, still in Pretoria, was not well enough to accompany him.*Gelderland*departed on 20 October 1900.[222]"
 
Lee-Z said:
Funny enough, that is how it's described on Paul Kruger's wiki page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger

"Kruger left the Transvaal by rail on 11 September 1900—he wept as the train crossed into Mozambique. He planned to board the first outgoing steamer, the*Herzog*of the*German East Africa Line, but was prevented from doing so when, at the behest of the local British Consul, the Portuguese Governor insisted that Kruger stay in port under*house arrest.[n 29]*About a month later*Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands*concluded a deal with Britain to extricate Kruger on a Dutch warship,*HNLMS*Gelderland, and convey him through non-British waters to*Marseille. Kruger was delighted to hear of this but dismayed that Gezina, still in Pretoria, was not well enough to accompany him.*Gelderland*departed on 20 October 1900.[222]"
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It is nice to romanticize but Queen Wilhelmina wrote letters to Queen Victoria, Emperor Wilhelm II and to Tsar Nicholas II (in consultation with Prime Minister Aenas baron Mackay).

In 1890 an International Peace Conference was organized on the initiative of Tsar Nicholas II. Queen Wilhelmina offered Huis ten Bosch as conference venue. This conference was fruitless anyway.

When the Boer republics were defeated by the British it was Minister of Foreign Affairs Hendrik Willem de Beaufort whom organized a safe exit of Paul Kruger. It was "Her Majesty's" Panzer Cruiser Gelderland which picked up the Boers president. But all within the normal constitutional framework. No way that a heated young girl in The Hague ordered the Fleet to sail to South Africa and pick up the besieged Paul Kruger.
 
Just a few items that I have about queen Emma, queen Wilhelmina & the rest of the Dutch royals, first 2 peppermint tin jars with beautiful colour pictures of queen Emma, Wilhelmina, Juliana & Beatrix as queens on the peppermint tins & well preserved (worth a few bob), photobook about the Dutch royals, from queen Emma onwards to queen Beatrix. (366 Pages, from black & white to colour pictures), last, a box with 6 dvd's 1898-2007 from black & white to colour. & last a biography of queen Wilhelmina in English "LONELY, BUT NOT ALONE" by Mc Graw-Hill
 
Tonight a new 4-part documentary about Queen Wilhelmina will be broadcasted on NPO2.

It is called: ´Wilhelmina, een Leven voor de Troon´ (a life for the trone) and is presented by Diewertje Blok.

https://www.televizier.nl/kijktips/wilhelmina-een-leven-voor-de-troon-vierluik-start-npo2

It is the best documentary I have seen about the RF, almost on par with the VRT documentary of King Baudouin a few years ago. It is well researched and balanced. They talk to real historians and experts who actually know what they are talking about. And there are some surprising and original angles. They even interview Astrid van Goens Youskine, a granddaughter of Prince Hendrik and his mistress Mien Wenneker.

A pity that her own granddaughters never spoke about their grandmother.
 
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CyrilVladisla said:
Queen Wilhelmina in Scotland sketching
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/517437924
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I remember a lady telling about Queen Wilhemina in Scotland. She was staying in a house in a small town in Perthshire and used to go to the local shops to get the messages (shopping) for the house. One day she was in the butcher's shop and coach load of English tourists arrived and found out that the Queen was in the shop and gathered outside trying to see her, and causing a disturbance. The other customers blocked the door to stop them entering and the butcher took the Queen's arm and said "come away with me my dear, and I'll let you out the back door."
 
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SLV said:
She was queen by then. Thank you for the picture.
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And also newly married having wed Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in February 1901:previous:
 
Blog Real said:
Inauguration Queen Wilhelmina 1898
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Yes, I remember that through my collection of a b/w DVD box, including the late queen Wilhelmina in black/white DVD film clips of the collection of the House of Orange Nassau. The title of the DVD box set is "Beeld van Nederland" 1898-2007 (Picture of The Netherlands) in a box of 6 DVD's. It is worth having it and will increase in value.
 
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Duc_et_Pair said:
That is indeed a quite poor quality picture of the royal couple. When at Het Loo Palace in the East of the Netherlands or at their Schloss Dobbin in Mecklenburg, they loved horseriding. The Queen - of course- always in amazone seat.

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That pic was taken during their honeymoon,at Het Loo Palace.
 
As it was mentioned on a newsreel this morning..Apparently Queen Wilhelmina had an abortion once.` Great news to mention ofcourse` totally going passed any background info as to the real why...And with nothing else going on in the world today...

With syphilis infested Hendrik next to her it is a miracle of sorts she gave birth to ONE healthy child at all,Princess,later Queen,Juliana besides the 5 or 6 miscarriages she suffered and the bout of typhoid fever that had her to the brink of life and death...A life treatening pregnancy is the same now as it was 115 year ago,life treatening.

Sad she had to undergo that too in her early married years,it was a turning point in her relationship with Prince Hendrik,certainly at the time and in her position.A difficult life.Poor poor woman.
 
Interesting story by Prof. Trudy Dehue. It supposedly happened in 1902 and after a pregnancy of 4 months. Dehue claims that the queen suffered a typhoid infection and in combination with the pregnancy that was life threatening for both mother and child. Wilhelmina's death would have meant the throne would go to German relatives.

She cites a colonial newspaper, the Soerabaijasch Handelsblad which talks about a 'abortus provocatus'. The newspaper mentioned that it was written in a letter of Prince Hendrik to relatives in Germany. The letter itself was not found. She also mentions a telegram of Reuters that claimed that the shouts of pain were heard far outside the palace, which indicates not a spontanous miscarriage but an abortion as well.

https://www.msn.com/nl-nl/nieuws/ot...monarchie-hing-aan-zijden-draadje/ar-AA1a2zIb

It is an interesting theory but based on only one article in a colonial newspaper it may be a bit too quick to say this with absolute certainty. Perhaps something for a future biographer to figure out.
 
How terribly sad ,did Queen Wilhelmina contract syphilis from her husband?
 
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Marengo said:
Interesting story by Prof. Trudy Dehue. It supposedly happened in 1902 and after a pregnancy of 4 months. Dehue claims that the queen suffered a typhoid infection and in combination with the pregnancy that was life threatening for both mother and child. Wilhelmina's death would have meant the throne would go to German relatives.

She cites a colonial newspaper, the Soerabaijasch Handelsblad which talks about a 'abortus provocatus'. The newspaper mentioned that it was written in a letter of Prince Hendrik to relatives in Germany. The letter itself was not found. She also mentions a telegram of Reuters that claimed that the shouts of pain were heard far outside the palace, which indicates not a spontanous miscarriage but an abortion as well.
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Isn't it the other way around? A miscarriage can be very painful; a properly-performed abortion is not supposed to be. However if Wilhelmina was extremely sick she may have been in pain whatever happened.

An Ard Ri said:
How terribly sad ,did Queen Juliana contract syphilis from her husband?
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She contracted rubella while touring South Asia while pregnant which led to Princess Christina's blindness, and never really forgave herself. If you are asking if Bernhard gave her syphilis on top of that, I am not sure she would have forgiven him, or that their marriage would have lasted. Or that any of Juliana's medical history is consistent with having it.
 
Wilhelmina suffered through a lot of miscarriages, though if they were caused by STD's, I don't know.
Naturally caused abortions/miscarriages can hurt like hell too, though. So any screams of pain does not mean the pregnancy was actively aborted.
 
SLV said:
Wilhelmina suffered through a lot of miscarriages, though if they were caused by STD's, I don't know.
Naturally caused abortions/miscarriages can hurt like hell too, though. So any screams of pain does not mean the pregnancy was actively aborted.
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The poor woman ,what she must have gone through and her very strong religious beliefs too.
 
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