Juliana was bannelinge during the Second world War, many speeches, both in Canada and in the US, and both through several radio stations as directly to the public. Withuis find it remarkable that they did in 1941 for a while. “The hole in her lectures fell between mid-June and mid-October 1941 (with the exception of a speech on the anniversary of her mother) is explained from a pregnancy that early september ended in a miscarriage.”, concludes the author.
“That I infer from a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, to whom Juliana had to know that she liked her invitation accepted to the end of October to come and stay: ‘to Travel is to me easier now, the reason why in August was difficult, is gone.”
Worse marriage than thought
Queen Juliana was very lonely and her marriage to Prince Bernhard of the netherlands was even worse than thought. The loneliness of Juliana was clear for example in the fifties. “Bernhard spent both in 1953 and in 1954 for at least a quarter of the year without Juliana abroad, and in 1955 even a third. Both in 1953 and in 1954 he came only around new year’s eve visit in the winter sports resort where Juliana and Beatrix, Irene or Margaret stayed. The 'terrible loneliness' that Juliana in her speeches regularly outlined as the human condition, described in fact, her personal situation", writes Withuis.
Even in her last years, she was lonely: “The last years have been very heavy. Juliana received continuous nursing care. Visit came, barely. She recognized almost no one else; decorum and brakes fell away, anger was given a free course. Bernhard wanted to stop seeing her. He forbade her to visit him", says the author.
During their honeymoon went wrong
The first symptom of their bad marriage was already visible during the honeymoon of Juliana and Bernhard. Withuis performs a witness according to whom the prince is ‘alleronhebbelijkst’ behaved to his wife in the casino of Monte Carlo: “Bernhard is angry when he loses, because he can’t. At the Grande Table came Juliana to him, but he is alleronhebbelijkst against her, à la barbe du public [for the eyes of the public, jw]. She is terribly sweet to him, and every time, later at a roulette table, and then stands with his coat brushing it off. But he takes no note of her and talk only with other women. (…) He may be a prince, a lord, he is not. Everyone knows them here and look for him.
Withuis denounces the behavior of Bernhard: “It is a gloomy thought that Bernhard, a naive young woman into a courtship and a marriage would have seduced, while her most kind and touchingly guileless thought.”
'Mind'
In the fifties, it struck Juliana in the ban of the gebedsgenezeres Greet Hofmans. This led to further removal of prince Bernhard, and even to a constitutional crisis. It was Juliana, according to Withuis, by some of the ministers without restraint 'mind'. There were rumors about plans to the princess. Evidence for these plans has Withuis not found. “My research has no tracks produced opnameplannen.”
About the friends of Prince Bernhard writes Withuis that he is so far that he is one of them, Ann Orr-Lewis, even went with the family: “Until 1952, was Ann Orr-Lewis, a tormenting presence in Juliana’s existence. Bernhard took his now-divorced girlfriend after the war on a regular basis with family. That was enough, but around 1950, there seemed to be next to egotism also poison to play – as if he were Juliana and her feelings for Hofmans paid wanted to convert. So it could happen that when Juliana in February 1950 with her new friends in Sankt Anton arrived, Ann, asked by the absent Bernhard, there all around them. That brought Juliana in a difficult position. Orr-Lewis has emerged as a friend of the family on the company, and was supported by Bernhard, his wife from South America with a grim tone commanded his girlfriend a warm treat and even invitations for dinners of her circle."
Lockheed-affair
Juliana stood in the Lockheed affair, in which prince Bernhard bribes would have received from prime contractor Lockheed, according to Withuis square rear her husband.
The author writes: “Juliana from day one of the rumors about Lockheed squarely behind her man drafted, to fit in with the pattern that the queen across successive cabinets ‘like a lioness’ (Piet de Jong) the familiebelang defended. But her protection of Bernhard went further than that. Juliana was good in the nasty sides of reality not to see. Whether mistresses, illegitimate children, or a bribe, they had, such as Carel Achtergracht put it, a big 'commitment' to 'the picture' of the idyll, 'between Bernhard and herself not to pollute'. Bernhard had her in 1936, the illusion is given that he loved her and her life’s work could alleviate. Both illusions let them through the reality not to take it away."
Withuis believes that Juliana continued to hope on Bernhard’s love.
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