Dutch 15 August 1945 Commemoration

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The Netherlands has one national and several regional or local remembrance services on or near to the 15th of August. The national service is at the “Indisch monument” (Dutch for “Indies Monument”) in The Hague, where the Dutch victims of the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies are remembered, usually in the presence of the head of state and the government. In total, there are about 20 services, also in the Indies remembrance center in Bronbeek in Arnhem. The Japanese occupation meant the twilight of Dutch colonial rule over Indonesia. Indonesia declared itself independent on 17 August 1945, just two days after the Japanese surrendered. The Indonesian war of independence lasted until 1948, with the Netherlands recognizing Indonesian sovereignty in late December of that year.
The end of World War II is commemorated every 15 August. On this date in 1945, Japan surrendered, bringing an end to the war in Southeast Asia and to World War II for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

On 15 August, the thoughts are going to the victims of the Japanese occupation of Asia – both military personnel and citizens. The annual commemorations are held on this date at the Indies Monument in The Hague.

 

 

#OTD 28 june 1965 Engagement Princess Beatrix and Claus von Amsberg

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Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard announced the engagement at the Soestdijk Palace on 28 june 1965. Claus von Amsberg was suddenly known in the Netherlands in May 1965 by a famous photo, made by John de Rooy in the garden of Castle Drakensteyn.
The engagement between 38-year-old Claus and 27-year-old Beatrix was accompanied by unusual press conferences held by the court with domestic and foreign media.
The government agreed on marriage approval at the end of 1965. That permission was needed, among other things, so that Beatrix could retain her right to the throne. Claus received the Dutch nationality. On March 10, 1966 the marriage was closed in a noisy Amsterdam. Prince Claus later said that “the time of engagement was a very difficult time, only to be tolerated by what existed between me and my wife.”

King Willem-Alexander Of The Netherlands & Queen Maxima Attend Appeltjes Award Ceremony In The Hague

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King Willem- Alexander handed out the Orange Apples on Noordeinde Palace in The Hague. The prizes are awarded this year to three social initiatives dedicated to vulnerable children. Experiences from Stichting Informele Zorg (SIZ) Twente, Stichting Buurtgezinnen.nl and Stichting Weekend Academy.

With Orange Apples, the Orange Fund annually donates social initiatives that successfully connect groups of people and inspire others. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima are the patrons of the Orange Fund. In lustrums, the King gives the prizes, Queen Máxima all other years. The Orange Apples are awarded this year for the fifteenth time.

The prize consists of a bronze statue and a sum of EUR 15,000. The statue was designed by her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Princess Beatrix Patron Muscle fund Netherlands

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© RVD, foto: Jeroen van der Meyde

In 1956 a serious polio epidemic raged in the Netherlands. A vaccine was not yet available and 2,200 people, mostly children, were suffering from permanent muscle weakness and paralysis. There was an urgent need to raise funds for victims rehabilitation, mainly children, and for scientific research to fight the disease. In 1956, the Fund for Combating Pediatric Palsy was established.
Due to the availability of a vaccine, polio is currently under control. Now we are working hard to overcome other muscle diseases, such as Duchenne, ALS and SMA’s disease.
In 1956, Crown Princess Beatrix was installed as Patron of the Fund for Combating Paternal Palsy and changed the name to the Princess Beatrix Fund. In order to clarify what the fund stands for in 2012, the name is adapted to Princess Beatrix Spierfonds.

Ever since 1956, Princess Beatrix is the Patron of the muscle funds. A role she plays with attention and interest. And not only for the organization and patients invaluable, but certainly for the many volunteers.

Since her 18th birthday, Princess Beatrix has been closely involved in the work of the fund. In addition, the presence of the princess at meetings of the fund is always a highlight for many. Patients feel really backed by her presence and heart-warming attention.

 

Book from own Collection : Open-hearted : Queen Beatrix about herself …: her job, her marriage, her family, her faith

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Open-hearted  : Queen Beatrix about  herself …: her job, her marriage, her family, her faith 2011 -149 Pages.

We know much more than we ever thought about Queen Beatrix. This includes the four (wide) TV interviews that Beatrix gave during her reign and then split into 24-odd themes majesty as an ordinary person, her preparation for kingship, her role as a mother, her turbulent wedding, prince Claus as a advisor, her experience in times of hardship and sorrow, her passion (model), the bulging diary, her faith and thus a large number of sub-themes. On many subjects, the queen is remarkably open hearted. It appears the difficulty she had with her predestined role as queen, how high they raise the bar for herself and her environment, how happy her life on Drakensteyn ,how lonely it became after the death of Claus, how she enjoyed the visits in the country, how difficult it was the transition to the Hague, how they can efface and how she feels supported by her faith. So we know Beatrix in a way that has not arisen before. The many photographs show the princess in all roles, together with the unique text makes this personal image of Beatrix complete.

Princess Beatrix opened exhibition ‘Chapeaux!

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Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands opened in Museum Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, the exhibition ‘Chapeaux! hats Queen Beatrix. The exhibition includes more than a hundred hats that are worn during her reign of 33 years.

The occasions when Queen Beatrix wore ranged hats Queen’s visit to state, regional visits, openings and other events. The exhibition includes hats designers Emy Bloemheuvel, Suzanne Moulijn and Harry Scheltens. The hats are never isolated, but are always designed in conjunction with the clothing and stained. The exhibition shows the hats in combination with images of the occasions on which they are worn.

Curators of the exhibition curator and stylist Maarten Spruyt and Tsur Reshef interior designer in collaboration with the Royal Collections.

Book from own collection : Brides Of Orange

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In this book about the Orange brides of the past 150 : Marianne, Sophia, Emma, Wilhelmina, Juliana, Irene, Beatrix, Margriet, Christina, Marilene, Annette, Laurentien, Margarita, Maxima and Mabel addressed. A large part of the book consists of known facts: Each bride is what told about youth, origin, education, career, introduction to the Orange prince or king, reactions of the Royal Family and the people, engagement, wedding etc. That all supplemented and mixed with – most well-known – stories, scandals, speculation and gossip and conclusions and inferences of the author. With a booklet with (color) wedding photos and a bibliography. For royalty fans who like to read gossip titivated facts, written in an easily readable style.

To bad are the many Spelling mistakes and wrong data…

This makes it a little bit a funny book.

What else you can expect from a tabloid journalist?

Book from own Collection : She who brings luck, how the Dutch see Beatrix

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She who brings luck, how the Dutch the see Beatrix
Photos in color and black and white Queen Beatrix, made by amateurs. On the occasion of the 50 th Birthday of Queen Beatrix in 1988
This book (a book of photographs with captions) published on the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Queen Beatrix, in fact, this book was put together by Dutch people sending in the self-made photos of the queen. The captions are taken from the corresponding letters. A colorful Book so we get a good impression of the bustling life of Queen Beatrix until 1988

Happy 79th Birthday Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands

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© RVD, foto: Jeroen van der Meyde

Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard: (31 January 1938) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. She is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Upon her mother’s accession in 1948, she became heir presumptive. When her mother abdicated on 30 April 1980, Beatrix succeeded her as queen.

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. In 1961, she received her law degree from Leiden University. In 1966, Beatrix married Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat, with whom she had three children: Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands (b. 1967), Prince Friso (1968-2013) and Prince Constantijn (b. 1969). Prince Claus died in 2002. At the time of her abdication, Beatrix was the oldest reigning monarch of the Netherlands.

Beatrix’s reign saw the country’s Caribbean possessions reshaped with Aruba’s secession and becoming its own constituent country within the Kingdom in 1986 as well as the subsequent Antillean Dissolution in 2010, which created the new special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, and the two new constituent countries of Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

On Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day), 30 April 2013, Beatrix abdicated in favour of her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, and resumed the title of princess.

Abdication

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We recieved the question what is means : abdication : Abdication is depositing a typically regal function ( kingship or empire) in life, as opposed to termination by death. Previously, this was highly unusual (a famous example is that of Charles V in favor of his son Philip II), nowadays it is more common. In the United Kingdom, Monaco and the Scandinavian countries abdication  still unusual. We made a list from 1917 until now and it shows it’s no so unusual as we think..( list below te article)

The first King of the Netherlands, William I, abdicated the throne in 1840. He was disappointed over the loss of Belgium (which declared independence in 1830, but was not recognized until 1839), didn’t like a new, somewhat less conservative constitution, and wanted to marry a Catholic, which would have been scandalous for a Dutch monarch at the time. His son and grandson, William II and Wiliam III, reigned until their deaths.
Queen Wilhelmina reigned from 1890 to 1948. During the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940–1945), she was in London with the government and was far more influential than she would have been in peacetime. After the war, she wasn’t happy to get back in her role as a toothless constitutional monarch, without big changes from the prewar situation.
After that it became tradition that the monarch abdicates rather than reigning until death; Juliana did it in 1980, Beatrix in 2013

 

List of Abdication from 1917 until now :

⦁ Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia March 15, 1917 (monarchy abolished)
⦁ Ferdinand I, Tsar of the Bulgarians October 3, 1918 (forced into exile)
⦁ William II, German Emperor and King of Prussia November 9, 1918 (monarchies abolished)
⦁ Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg January 14, 1919
⦁ Constantine I, King of the Hellenes September 27, 1922
⦁ Prajadhipok, King of Siam March 2, 1935
⦁ Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, Emperor of India December 11, 1936
⦁ Carol II, King of Romania September 6, 1940 (forced into exile)
⦁ Rezā Shāh, of Iran September 16, 1941 (forced into exile)
⦁ Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam August 25, 1945 (Feudal Dynasty dissolved)
⦁ Peter II, King of Yugoslavia November 29, 1945 (fled in 1941, forced into exile by 1946)
⦁ Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy May 9, 1946 (abdicated in favour of his son, Umberto, later forced into exile when the monarchy was declared abolished)
⦁ Charles Vyner Brooke, White Rajah of Sarawak July 1, 1946 (monarchy abolished, Sarawak ceded as British Crown Colony)
⦁ Michael, King of Romania December 30, 1947 (monarchy abolished)
⦁ Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands September 4, 1948
⦁ Leopold III, King of the Belgians July 16, 1951
⦁ Farouk, King of Egypt July 26, 1952 (forced into exile)
⦁ Talal, King of Jordan August 11, 1952 (forced into exile)
⦁ Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, King of Qatar October 24, 1960
⦁ Saud, King of Saudi Arabia November 2, 1964 (forced into exile)
⦁ Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg November 12, 1964
⦁ Omar Ali Saifuddin, Sultan of Brunei October 4, 1967
⦁ Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands April 30, 1980
⦁ Letsie III, King of Lesotho [8] January 25, 1995 (reinstated as King February 7, 1996, following his father’s death)
⦁ Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg October 7, 2000
⦁ Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia October 7, 2004
⦁ Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait January 23, 2006
⦁ Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan December 15, 2006
⦁ Gyanendra, King of Nepal May 28, 2008 (monarchy abolished)
⦁ Pope Benedict XVI February 28, 2013
⦁ Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands April 30, 2013
⦁ Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar June 25, 2013
⦁ Albert II, King of the Belgians July 21, 2013
⦁ Juan Carlos I, King of Spain June 19, 2014