Princess Irene
Princess Irene was the second daughter of Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard.
Person
Princess Irene was the second daughter of Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. 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.[1]
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?”[2] 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.[3]
Princess Irene was married to the pretender to the Spanish throne, Carlos Hugo, from 1964 to 1981.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Wikipedia: Prinses Irene Brigade.
- ^ 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 - 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: Princess Irene of the Netherlands.