Wednesday, November 10, 2010

New palace for Juliana

November 10, 1936


Queen Wilhelmina will give the palace of Soestdyk was a wedding present to Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, according to the Associated Press.   The palace was originally "presented to the prince of Orange by the states of the Netherlands."  It will be "modernized and refurnished as a part of the wedding gift of the nation."
Crown Princess Juliana, heir to the throne, will be married on January 7.

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