Once upon the time there was a little Princess … or wait, she wasn’t even born yet. Her grandmother Queen Mother Emma and her mother Queen Wilhelmina already received dolls regularly when travelling through the Netherlands. So when Wilhelmina, after several miscarriages, finally again fell pregnant in 1908, the Dutch people were delighted. Already on […]
A Book much sought – The Jewels of the House of Orange-Nassau
There is one royal book in Dutch that I know many people would love to have, including me. It finally occurred to me recently that I could try to borrow it via the public library. Not that my own library had it, but a handful of public libraries in the Netherlands turned out to have […]