Princess Juliana
Princess Juliana was the daughter of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik.
Person
Princess Juliana was the daughter and only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik. On 7 January 1937, she married Prince Bernard zur Lippe. Princesses Beatrix, Irene, Margriet and Christina were born from this marriage. Juliana spent the war years in Canada with her daughters.
In 1943, a picture postcard was produced from a photograph of the Dutch Royal family, livinh in exile in Ottawa Canada, and then illegally distributed throughout the country. Anne was given one of these cards by the Bep, and she noted in her diary: “Bep has had a picture postcard of the whole royal family copied for me. Juliana looks very young, and so does the queen. The three girls are lovely. It was terribly nice of Bep, don’t you think?”[1] Anne first put this postcard into her photo album. She later pinned it to the wall, next to the image of the British Royal family, using a thumbtack.[2]
Juliana was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980.[3] Juliana's private secretary wrote a letter of thanks to Otto Frank for the copy of Het Achterhuis that he had sent.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 30 December 1943, 11 May 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS) - Collection online: Ansichtkaart op de plaatjeswand in de kamer van Anne Frank met daarop een foto van koningin Wilhelmina, prins Bernard, kroonprinses Juliana en de prinsessen Margriet, Irene en Beatrix tijdens hun ballingschap in Ottawa, op de plaatjeswand van Anne Frank.
- ^ Wikipedia: Juliana of the Netherlands.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_100: H.A. Sneller aan Otto Frank, 3 juli 1947.