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Princess Irene

Princess Irene was the second daughter of Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard.

Person

Vervaardiger onbekend. Collectie Anefo. Nationaal Archief, Den Haag.
  • Irene der Nederlanden
  • Born on: Aug. 5, 1939
  • Born in: Soestdijk, Nederland

Prinses Irene

Vervaardiger onbekend. Collectie Anefo. Nationaal Archief, Den Haag.

Publiek domein

Princess Irene was the second daughter of Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard.[1] She spent the war years in Canada with her mother and sisters. Her grandmother Wilhelmina named a Dutch army unit after her: the Princess Irene Brigade.[2] She was married to the pretender to the Spanish throne, Carlos Hugo, from 1964 to 1981.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to her as (one of) the three little girls. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 30 December 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Wikipedia: Prinses Irene Brigade.
  3. ^ Wikipedia: Princess Irene of the Netherlands.