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On 30 April 1980, her 71st birthday, Queen Juliana abdicated and her eldest daughter succeeded her. [12] Juliana remained active in numerous charitable causes until well into her eighties. Queen Juliana was very attached to Monte Argentario, in Tuscany, a favorite place for the Dutch royal family for their summer holidays for more than 40 years.
Beatrix was born during the reign of her maternal grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, and became heiress presumptive upon the accession of her mother, Queen Juliana, in 1948. Beatrix attended a public primary school in Canada during World War II , and then finished her primary and secondary education in the Netherlands in the post-war period.
The eldest daughter is Beatrix, (born 1938), who later became Queen of the Netherlands. His other daughters with Juliana are Irene (born 1939), Margriet (born 1943) and Christina (1947–2019). Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard with their oldest daughters Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene in Ottawa on 4 May 1942.
Queen Juliana accouncing her intent to abdicate. Following a reign of 31 years which began with the abdication of her mother Queen Wilhelmina in 1948, Queen Juliana, in a television and radio address to the nation on 31 January 1980, announced her intent to abdicate the throne in favour of her eldest daughter, Beatrix, in accordance with the precedence set by her mother.
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (Margriet Francisca; born 19 January 1943) is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard.As an aunt of the reigning monarch, King Willem-Alexander, she is a member of the Dutch Royal House and currently eighth and last in the line of succession to the throne.
Beatrice, whose own middle name is Elizabeth, previously nodded to the monarch by giving the same middle name to her first daughter, Sienna, who was born in September 2021.
Her visit was part of the day of service the Atlanta-based school has on the holiday. “Helping out makes my heart very, very full,” she said. In frigid Columbia, South Carolina, an MLK Day rally at the Statehouse entered its 25th year, featuring a smaller crowd, and some trepidation mixed in about the change of power occurring in Washington.
Juliana's daughter, Beatrix, retained the celebration on 30 April upon her ascent to the throne in 1980, because her birthday was on 31 January, the middle of winter. [2] Beatrix did alter her mother's custom of receiving a floral parade at Soestdijk Palace , instead choosing to visit different Dutch towns each year and join in the festivities ...