Princess Beatrix
Beatrix was the eldest daughter of Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard.
Person
Princess Beatrix was born on the 31th of January 1938 as the eldest daughter of Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. She spent the war years in Canada with her mother and sisters. n 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]
Princess Beatrix was on Otto Frank's mailing list when Anne Frank's book of tales was published in 1948.[3] On 10 March 1966, she married Claus von Amsberg. From 30 April 1980 to 30 April 2013, she was Queen of the Netherlands.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank. Diary Version A, 30 December 1943, 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.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_ 100.1.
- ^ Wikipedia: Beatrix of the Netherlands.