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Juliana (Dutch pronunciation: [jyliˈjaːnaː] ⓘ; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
Juliana's mother, Queen Wilhelmina, had spent most of the 1930s looking for a suitable husband for Juliana. As a Protestant of royal rank (the House of Lippe was a sovereign house in the German Empire ), Bernhard was deemed acceptable for the devoutly religious Wilhelmina.
The prince's wife Queen Juliana of the Netherlands stood sponsor for Jonathan Aitken's christening. William Aitken had joined the RAF and Penelope joined the WRVS, helping to evacuate German children to Ireland. In 1944, her husband was badly hurt in a Spitfire crash.
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Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wearing white mourning after the death of husband in 1934. In 2004, the four daughters of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands all wore white to their mother's funeral. In 1993, the Spanish-born Queen Fabiola introduced it in Belgium for the funeral of her husband, King Baudouin.
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The engagement was announced by Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard, on 28 June 1965. [4] After the announcement, the couple met the press in the gardens of Soestdijk Palace and granted an interview to Herman Felderhof. Queen Juliana and the States General granted their consent to the engagement. Amsberg was granted Dutch citizenship ...