Juliana of the Netherlands

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (Juliana Emma Louise Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau) (April 30, 1909 – March 20, 2004), Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, was Queen of the Netherlands from her mother's abdication in 1948 to her own abdication in 1980 and Queen Mother (with the title of Princess) from 1980 to 2004.

Illness and death

From the mid-1990s, Juliana suffered from the progressive onset of senility (attributed to Alzheimer's disease by many although this was denied by the Royal Family) and so did not appear in public after that time. At the order of the Royal Family's doctors, Juliana was placed under 24-hour watch by two nurses. Prince Bernhard publicly admitted in a TV interview in 2001 that she could no longer recognize her family.

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1990s - Senility - Alzheimer's disease - 2001

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Juliana died in her sleep on March 20, 2004, aged 94, at Soestdijk Palace in Baarn from complications of pneumonia, exactly 70 years after her grandmother Emma.

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March 20 - 2004 - Baarn - Pneumonia - Emma

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She was embalmed (unlike her mother, who chose not to be) and on March 30, 2004 interred beside her mother Wilhelmina at the New Church in Delft.

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Embalmed - March 30 - 2004 - Delft

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Her husband Prince Bernhard died from cancer barely eight months after her, on December 1, 2004, aged 93.

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Prince Bernhard - December 1 - 2004

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