The secret file of Orange, update.
Marie Claire, a "royal" orphan.
According to Black Hair Styles/Care Home Black Hair Styles/Care Homemr. Carry Hamburger van Knoops & Partners [the legal source] is said to be 'Maria Jacoba Roovers', who according to the Registry Office of the municipality of Ginneken was born on March 11, 1927, is an 'illegitimate' daughter of Princess Juliana, who moved to the palace at the beginning of February 1926. Noordeinde in The Hague was fathered by her own father, Prince Hendrik, the husband of Queen Wilhelmina. Her official first names are 'Maria Jacoba'. Since 1959, when her search for her biological parents took shape, she started calling herself 'Marie Claire' and that wish to change her first names will be expressed in this research. Marie Claire died on October 3, 1997 in the St.Anna hospital in Geldrop and, as she had indicated in her last will, was cremated in Heeze.
The legal source January 2009
A - A letter from HR
The name 'Maria Jacoba Roovers' [1927] is linked to the Valkenhorst judgment of the Supreme Court [15 April 1994] concerning the right to inspect the archives of the foundation Valkenhorst vh. Stichting Moederheil in Breda to find out who her biological parents were. According to the source, just before her death in 1997, she received a confidential letter from a member of the Supreme Court. So far, no indications have been found that Marie Claire actually received the letter from the Supreme Court. However, it can be read in documents that Marie Claire's first will of October 1996 was drawn up, including the establishment and statutes of the foundation "Marie Louise Julia" and the wishes regarding the burial in Ulvenhout, municipality of Nieuw Ginneken. Given Marie Claire's state of health, this foundation had to become, after her death, the legal successor in the legal proceedings in the dispute of state. In that state dispute, Marie Claire demanded 7 million guilders from the State of the Netherlands. A striking fact is that in January 1997 Marie Claire was forced by her lawyer to engage another civil-law notary to set up the foundation. However, that foundation was already registered with the Chamber of Commerce in Utrecht under number 265667 and would be transferred to Eindhoven in the summer of 1997. The new notary, accompanied by two witnesses, appeared at her bedside on September 30 in connection with the will and the foundation. So that signing took place three days before Marie Claire's death anniversary. The content of the second and last will is only known that, according to the civil-law notary, legal succession has been arranged in it. It is assumed that cremation instead of burial was also mentioned therein.
In the search for the possible High Council letter writer, Mr. W. Snijders, former councilor and vice-president of the Supreme Court from 1986 until his retirement, also the then registrar Jhr. Wouter van Nispen tot Sevenaer [b. 1937 - 2008], if this clerk wrote the letter on behalf of a member of the Supreme Court.
Many official documents have become available about the legal proceedings that Marie Claire conducted between 1988 and her death in 1997, including correspondence with the various lawyers who assisted her during that period. That correspondence sheds a completely different light on this case, in which a child of royal blood became a child of the State and was completely at the mercy of the State of the Netherlands, which from November 1926 until her death followed and was thwarted in all her attempts to clarify her parentage. This historical investigation is the continuation of Marie Claire's lifelong desire to meet her biological mother. Her father Prince Hendrik had already died in June 1934. In 1981 she wrote a very personal letter to Princess Juliana, her biological mother. In reply to that letter, her mother, through her personal secretary, stated that there was nothing she could do for Marie Claire. In July 1995 she wrote a personal letter to the current Queen Beatrix, in which she indicated, among other things, that Prince Hendrik was her father. Due to the intervention of the then director of the Queen's Cabinet, Mr. Felix ER Rhodius, this letter never reached Her Majesty. Both letters from Marie Claire and the official responses to them will be published here in the near future. In July 1995 she wrote a personal letter to the current Queen Beatrix, in which she indicated, among other things, that Prince Hendrik was her father. Due to the intervention of the then director of the Queen's Cabinet, Mr. Felix ER Rhodius, this letter never reached Her Majesty. Both letters from Marie Claire and the official responses to them will be published here in the near future. In July 1995 she wrote a personal letter to the current Queen Beatrix, in which she indicated, among other things, that Prince Hendrik was her father. Due to the intervention of the then director of the Queen's Cabinet, Mr. Felix ER Rhodius, this letter never reached Her Majesty. Both letters from Marie Claire and the official responses to them will be published here in the near future.
B - a file
There is a file in the safe of Knoops & Partners in Amsterdam that has been given for safekeeping by a client who has died in the meantime. The source itself has, as far as is known here, indicated that there is a direct connection between the HR letter to Marie Claire and the file. It is not yet clear who the client was and whether this client also owned the file. The source indicated that the file would no longer be retrieved. Whether it is a sealed file is also not yet clear. It is known, however, that the client has discussed the contents of the file with the source. This legal source connected Marie Claire to Prince Hendrik and Princess Juliana.
Further investigation has definitively shown that this file was entrusted to Knoops & Partners by Marie Claire herself. Since the client died in 1997, this file was part of her estate. There are, it should be clear, no heirs and so this file will become the property of the State of the Netherlands in 2017. The question what Mr. Carry Hamburger was inspired to violate her duty of confidentiality as a lawyer in January 2009 by providing confidential information to a journalist in a private conversation, will now be further investigated on the basis of the authentic documents.
C - a 'disappeared' file
In the van 't Sant case, a 'pack of papers' has also disappeared, the contents of which are unknown.
This missing 'file' has been missing since May 1940, after it had been deposited by Queen Wilhelmina in 1935, after the conclusions of the honorary council, in the secret archives of the Queen's Cabinet as her personal property, with the note that it would not be available until after her death could only be opened by her daughter Juliana. On May 7, 1940, this pack of papers was collected from her cabinet and taken to London on May 13, 1940 by Wilhelmina, with Francois van 't Sant and, remarkably enough, also Jhr. mr. Hendrik FLK van Vredenburch, the son of the envoy in Brussels who died in 1927 and the only policy official of the Foreign Affairs, who, together with naval adjutant Post Uiterweer, was charged with securing a large part of the Orange capital on behalf of Queen Wilhelmina .
Historians have indicated that almost all documents in "the Van 't Sant case", often at the request of Queen Wilhelmina, were actually destroyed by those directly involved. Jr. mr. Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland, the eldest son, found after the death of his father Jhr. In 1956 F. Beelaerts van Blokland still has a file left over from 't Sant in the family archive, which he says he burned at the time. Whether this is the case will be examined in more detail here. This gentleman was recalled to London by Queen Wilhelmina in 1943 because of his father's health problems. Her Majesty employed him as an orderly officer. During those last war years he lived with his father, who, together with jhr.mr. GCW Tets van Goudriaan [1882 -1948], Director of the Queen's Cabinet, in Queens Anne'
This research investigated whether the file in the safe of the legal source could possibly be this 'disappeared' personal file of Wilhelmina and whether Wilhelmina returned that file after the war to Mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, her confidant and the viceroy. of the Netherlands, for safekeeping. This is therefore not the case, given the current state of affairs in the investigation. Whether Juliana did see this file after the death of her mother on November 28, 1962, has not yet been ascertained.
Follow the trail back 1
The foundling Marie Claire
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Ecclesiastical, judicial and municipal sources from 1926
These sources, including the estate of two people directly involved, contain many 'authentic' documents that reflect the actual life of the 'royal' orphan Marie Claire from birth.
The name 'Maria Jacoba Roovers' came into the picture on March 14, 1927, when 'Wilhelmina Jacoba Antonia Ariaans, 27 years old and without profession, living here, registered the birth at the Registrar's Office at 5 Valkenierslaan in Ginneken en Bavel of Maria Jacoba on March 11, 1927. The name of the mother was Cornelia Roovers, born on May 29, 1886, without occupation, living in Breda.
In addition to Wilhelmina Ariaans, who was not authorized to make this declaration, Mr Antonius Pijnen, police officer in Ginneken and municipal messenger Albertus Kroes were also present at that declaration. The civil registrar was Mr. F. van Unen. In 1996 it was shown to the court that the address Valkenierslaan 5, which was given by W. Ariaans, was not the address where she lived, because that turned out to be the small seminary on the Ypelaar. On April 6, 1927 Cornelia Roovers, the 'mother', reported to the municipality of Ginneken, who stated that "on March 11, 1927 she gave birth out of wedlock to a child of the female sex, to which child the first names Maria Jacoba, and which child dated April 6, 1927 by deed, executed before an official of the Registry Office of the municipality of Ginneken, as a result of which Marie Claire was recognized as a 'natural child' by her. Below is a page found, on which chronological information about the life course of Cornelia Roovers, the so-called biological mother of Marie Claire, is listed.
Marie Claire spent the first six years in Moederheil Ginneken under the management of the 'Little Sisters of Saint Joseph' in Breda, who managed the orphanage and the other institutions on behalf of the Moederheil foundation.
In 1933, Marie Claire was transferred to the orphanage on Nieuwstraat in Breda.
On November 1, 1988, Coleta Alkemade, the economist of that orphanage in those years, would declare the following to Marie Claire: "You were claimed. You are not from here, you are from The Hague. If you knew who you are descended from, you would You can't see us anymore. You're of royal blood."
On May 8, 1935, the Breda Court forced the then 49-year-old Cornelia Roovers to move from Bloemenmarkt 13 in Roosendaal to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Tilburg, where she would stay until her death in 1944.
In June 1936, 'in the name of the Queen', the district court in Breda, at the request of the Voogdijraad Breda, the plaintiff, not only pronounced the release of Cornelia Roovers [the defendant]'s guardianship over Marie Claire because of her psychological and financial situation, but also an 'exile' of 9-year-old Marie Claire from the orphanage on the Nieuwstraat in Breda because of unmanageable behavior towards the other children. There are no documents in the archives of the Breda court that indicate that Cornelia Roovers was appointed as Marie Claire's guardian. There are, however, strong indications that the president of the court itself has requested the Guardianship Council to submit a petition about both the release of Cornelia Roovers as guardian and the banishment of Marie Claire,
The Breda Guardianship Council was represented as plaintiff by the chairman of the Breda Guardianship Council, Mr. LJW Smit and the secretary of the front council Jacob H. van Mierlo. Cornelia Roovers was present and was heard by the court.
The president of the court in Breda in this 14-day accelerated procedure was Mr. Jr. LJM van Sasse van Ysselt, a cousin of Mr. Jr. AFO van Sasse van Ysselt, the very elderly former president of the court in Den Bosch, member of the Senate and member of the 'secret' council of honor on the Van 't Sant case in 1934/1935. It is striking that the president of the multiple chamber in Breda was presented by Queen Wilhelmina with four ribbons, namely Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau [1932], Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau [1938] and Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion [1939], for his services rendered have been rewarded. The other judges of this 'multiple chamber' in 1936 were Mr. A. Bisschop Boele, juvenile judge and Mr. GJKroonenberg.
Further research is ongoing into the important role of, among others, the Breda and Tilburg regents of Sasse van Ysselt, van Mierlo and van de Mortel with regard to the exile of MarieClaire in 1936 from Breda to Tilburg. On April 7, 1995, Marie Claire wrote a letter to Minister Hans van Mierlo, a descendant of Mierlo's regent family, requesting her help.
The forced transfer of both Cornelia Roovers in 1935 to the asylum of the Good Shepherd in Tilburg and that of Marie Claire, who, after the verdict of 30 June 1936, was transferred on 6 July of that year to the orphanage St. Jozef, Wilhelminapark 56 in Tilburg, which was led by the German Carmelites of the Sacred Heart, ensured that the Moederheil foundation no longer played a significant role until it became known in the 1980s that the board of the Valkenhorst vh Moederheil foundation had decided to destruction of old files.
After the verdict of the court in Breda on June 30, 1936, the Roman Catholic Association for Child Protection, Huize Nazareth in Tilburg, became Marie Claire's new guardian. A striking fact is that 'Huize Nazareth' was a guardianship institution for boys. Supervisory guardian was appointed 'Theodorus van Ireland', born in Tilburg October 15, 1870. without occupation, married, childless, residing in Tilburg, Sint Josephstraat 85, who has declared himself willing to accept the supervisory guardianship. This supervising guardian was employed as secretary of the RC Association for Child Protection in Tilburg and former director of Huize Nazareth. This secretary was the supervising guardian for all children who were admitted. The president of that association was Mr. Jan CA van de Mortel who was mayor of Tilburg during the war years. The name of his son Mr. Caspar van de Mortel also appears in correspondence found. He later married Marianne van Sasse van Ysselt. The German superior of the orphanage, Sister Longina, was also on the board of the Association for Child Protection.
It is striking that in a copy from the original book by Valkenhorst, signed by TJT Raas, chairman of the board, not April 6, 1927, but "June 10, 1927" is stated as the day on which the child was recognized. The same document also stated that Cornelia Roovers " on December 19, 1926 was received by the Moederheil foundation" and that the case was in the hands of the Breda Guardianship Council.
Follow the trail back 2
The "Elisabeth le Roi" affair December 1927
The spider in the 'royal' web in this intriguing and still unexplained affair was Francois van 't Sant, who, a few days after the unexpected death on 3 December 1927 of Jhr. Carel WFG van Vredenburch [Oct 20, 1874 - Dec 3. 1927] , the Dutch Envoy in Brussels, approached, shocked and blackmailed the next of kin with an apparently 'believable' story about an illegitimate child of the deceased, fathered by one Elisabeth le Roi.
In 1956, almost thirty years later, Francois van 't Sant, who then lived in a small white villa next to Soestdijk Palace, broke his silence in front of historian Lou de Jong and admitted that it was not the squire, but Prince Hendrik, the husband of Queen Wilhelmina, the father of Elisabeth le Roi's child.
It was not until 1979, 52 years after the start of the affair, that Lou de Jong published about this in part 9b of 'The Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Second World War.
Subsequently, 'Het Binnenhof', the Haagsche Courant and De Telegraaf, among others, published critical articles about Van 't Sant's role in 'the Elisabeth le Roi affair'. van 't Sant' [1980 - Querido], in which this unexplained affair was revealed. In this study, that document from 1980 is one of the most important pillars.
The new timeline from February 1926
New documents and closer examination of archive documents show that the timeline used earlier, based on the official birth certificate stating the date 11 March 1927, was a wrong starting point.
The declaration of Marie Claire's birth is a document that was drawn up many months after Marie Claire's birth. The archives of the Civil Poor Board Breda and the Armenraad Breda clearly describe how this issue of birth certificates was customary at the time. Statutory regulations regarding reporting were not complied with when it came to the children of Moederheil.
In the book "Juliana & Bernhard" [Balans- 2008] by Cees Fasseur, the house historian of Orange, Prince Hendrik is described as a rustic, good-natured husband who, in his 'abundant' free time [he was also chairman of the Dutch Red Cross] was mainly engaged in forestry, training horses, hunting grouse, deer, wild boar and female beauty. As the first Prince Consort in the history of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, he received no contribution from the state towards his maintenance. The spending pattern of the 'debt prince' led to Wilhelmina having to dig deep into the Orange pouch, especially in the 1920s and 1930s until after his death in 1934.
Historical sources confirm that the bond between father and daughter was very close and that there was no marital morality in Juliana's childhood years. In 'Lonely, but not alone', Wilhelmina's autobiography, Prince Hendrik was described in 1927, after the birth of Marie Claire, as a true Christian who stood by his wife Wilhelmina and his daughter more than ever before during that difficult time. With regard to Hendrik's dissolute life and its consequences, Wilhelmina, as queen, had to accept her fate, because her position simply did not allow an all-too-invisible, external separation or severance of contact, let alone a divorce. Juliana would later state that her father's extramarital affairs were more or less considered normal in the noble circles in which they moved. It is certain that Juliana grew up and was brought up within the palace walls until the start of her studies at Leiden University in September 1927.
It was her mother who wanted it that way.
Research into images to show that Princess Juliana could not have been pregnant during that period has not yet been conclusive. The last official photograph of Juliana in 1926 is a portrait on the occasion of her seventeenth birthday on April 30 of that year. Then there is a press photo from April 1926 with a walking princess in the dunes near Waalsdorp and from 2 June 1926 during a visit by the Royal family to Hoogovens
Newspaper archives about Princess Juliana included court reports from 1926 that indicated where the princess was and in whose company she was when visiting church services, concerts, theater performances, etc. or on official occasions where the royal family had to be present, such as the annual multi-day visit to Amsterdam, the silver wedding celebration in February 1926 and, among other things, a horse competition and of course receptions and guest dinners at court.
The archives also often mention which members of the royal family arrived or departed by train from 't Loo to The Hague or vice versa on a given day. The first days of February are important in this research into Juliana's pregnancy, because on 2 February Wilhelmina and her court went by train to 't Loo Palace, where Prince Hendrik was already staying. Juliana stayed behind in Noordeinde Palace in The Hague. On 3 February, her father Prince Hendrik came to The Hague by train. The next day Juliana left for 't Loo. On February 5, Prince Hendrik also went back to Apeldoorn. During that week Adolf van Mecklenburg and his wife also stay at 't Loo. On Sunday, February 7, there is a tour in the area of ??'t Loo and on February 10, the royal party and Hendrik traveled. s brother and wife to The Hague for further residence. On February 16, Juliana went by train from 't Loo to The Hague.
The last message found in February is following a church service in the Grote Kerk on February 28.
For the months of March, April and May, the dates Juliana appeared in public are also posted on the timeline. Those data will not be published here for the time being. If necessary, that information will also be added.
The annual visit to Amsterdam started on 29 May. On June 4, Juliana left at 12.30 pm by train from Amsterdam via Soestdijk to 't Loo. Wilhelmina also followed by train at 2.30 pm. On June 12, Juliana will visit Emma at Soestdijk Palace.
On June 18, the royal family left for France and Switzerland for vacation. On June 28, a report appeared in the newspaper that the visit of the royal family to Rotterdam in mid-August would not take place.
On July 15, there is a press release stating that the Queen would return from Switzerland on Tuesday, July 20.
Prince Hendrik is in Berlin [Siemens] on 16 July.
On July 17, Princess Juliana returned in the company of Jhr. Sikkinghe, chamberlain of Wilhelmina, returned to the Netherlands. On that same day, Juliana went to Emma at Soestdijk Palace.
It is clear that Juliana got 'whooping cough' during that period. An infectious disease for which there was no recognized medicine at that time. The result was therefore an isolation, shielded from the outside world.
On July 31, Wilhelmina, who had already suffered from a cold during her holiday in Switzerland, will take a walk in the palace garden for the first time. Princess Juliana has been in her room since July 27.
On August 5, Wilhelmina and her daughter went to 'de Ruygenhoek' in the Scheveningen dunes for a longer period of time because of Juliana's whooping cough. Prince Hendrik visited the "Gesolei" in 'Düsseldorf' from 11 to 14 August.
On the afternoon of 3 September, Juliana was seen taking a short walk on the beach with her mother, followed by a pony wagon and a carriage in which HM took a seat moments later, while Juliana sat on the pony wagon's box.
On September 5, Juliana attended a service in the Kloosterkerk. On September 8, 1926, there is another press photo when Juliana is in Utrecht, followed by a visit to IJmuiden on September 10, where Juliana wore a fur coat. The stay in country house De Ruygenhoek in the first half of September was confirmed by a story that appeared on September 13, 1926 in the Dordtse courant an article about Gerrit Goovars and Barnard de Looze, two Boy Scouts of the Salvation Army, troop no.18 The Hague who had bicycle trouble in the dunes near the Ruygenhoek country residence and approached a woman. That woman turned out to be Queen Wilhelmina. They were helped and taken from home in the evening by a court car to dine together with the royal family.
After the third Tuesday in September, Her Majesty and her daughter return to 't Loo on September 24. Followed a day later by Prince Hendrik.
Other dates have been found from newspaper archives when the princess was still seen in public during her pregnancy.
On Sunday afternoon, October 3, 1926, Juliana made a driving tour of Hoog Soeren and Wiessel, while her parents and Adolf, Prince Hendrik's brother and his wife, who were visiting 't Loo Palace, go to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for a 1 hour long tour.
On October 9, 1926, the Princess and her parents attend the inauguration of the 'Colonial Institute' in Amsterdam, accompanied by fourteen members of the court. It was a rainy day, so the car was used instead of a gala carriage. A press photo of this visit was found.
A press release about Prince Hendrik was published on October 21, announcing that the Prince would go to Berlin on November 3 and return to 't Loo on November 5. That eventually became November 7th.
On November 17, 1926, Queen Mother Emma, ??accompanied by her lady-in-waiting, Mrs. van de Poll, visited a doll exhibition in the Witte Brug hotel in The Hague. A day later, Prince Hendrik and Princess Juliana, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting, Baroness Sloet van Marxveld, were also there.
On 20 November 1926, six weeks after her last public appearance, Juliana was accompanied by her parents during the evening performance of 'die Wallküre' by the Residentie Orchestra.
On Sunday 12 December, Princess Juliana attended a church service in the Wilhelmina Church.
Nothing has been found so far about the Christmas celebration in family circles in December 1926.
It has become clear, however, that 17-year-old Juliana was described in 1926 as a 'chubby' appearance. Her attire is quite revealing during a public performance. If something is to be kept secret, and it should be if she was actually pregnant, and that is now taken for granted here, then every effort will be made to present as normal a picture as possible to the outside world and the pregnancy camouflage as much as possible.
At the beginning of 1927, Princess Juliana had started the last phase of her secondary education, which had been taking place in seclusion for years. Sources have revealed that Dr. N. Japikse, the archivist of the Royal Archives, was commissioned by Wilhelmina in February 1926 to take over the lectures on history given by VU professor AAvan Schelven.
On January 11, 1927 there is a court message that Professor Jhr. WJM Eysinga has been appointed to teach the princess in constitutional law and ethnology from February 1927. In addition, another lecturer appeared at the palace in 1927, the professor of economics GM Verrijn Stuart, who also gave some lectures in 1926. In March 1927, Wilhelmina also finally gave Juliana permission to study, although she absolutely did not want that. Prince Hendrik had previously agreed to study in Leiden.
On April 7, 1927, the Queen and Juliana returned with the court by train to 't Loo Palace, where the royal family usually stayed from early spring to late November/early December, with the necessary interruptions.
Preliminary conclusion after preliminary investigation
If what the new sources have revealed is true, then it is necessary to change course and 'for the time being' just assume that Princess Juliana really got pregnant in 1926. Then more clarity can also be obtained about the true motives of 'Sandyman', as Wilhelmina called her guardian angel Francois van 't Sant in letters to her daughter Juliana.
For the time being, the question is what inspired the chief of police in The Hague in December 1927 to tarnish his honor and good name with a story that was initially 'credible' for the brother of the deceased.
Here it is mainly examined whether the assumption is correct that Van 't Sant, due to the sudden death of the Envoy,
The 'credible' story [early December 1927]
Below is a quote from an article in the Historisch Nieuwsblad, written by Bas Kromhout, in which the Elisabeth le Roi affair, thanks to the historian Lou de Jong and the publication of part 9b of his life's work in 1979 , again caused a commotion.
However, Van Vredenburch was so impressed by Hendrik's former mistress that he also started a love affair with her. He then signed a statement implicitly acknowledging the paternity of 'Henri le Roi'.
When Van Vredenburch died in 1927, Van 't Sant contacted his family. He said he needed 40,000 guilders because 'Elisabeth' threatened to cause a scandal. With the money she and her son could start a new life in America. He did not add that little 'Henny' belonged not to Mr. van Vredenburch, but to the Prince of the Netherlands. The family paid, but then suspected Van 't Sant of putting the money in his own pocket because there was hardly any evidence of the existence of 'Elisabeth le Roi'. In 1928 Van 't Sant demanded another 7,000 guilders from the van Vredenburch family. That additional amount was also paid.
However, in the civil lawsuit that followed, the family was unable to prove that 'Elisabeth le Roi' did not exist. However, Van 't Sant refused to give full disclosure in court about the identity of 'Elisabeth'. Although he protected the royal family, his own reputation was irreparably damaged. He therefore resigned as chief commissioner in The Hague. Immediately after his resignation, Wilhelmina hired her confidant." [end of quote]
For a more detailed description of that 'credible' and confused story of Van 't Sant and the bizarre process from 1932, the year in which the van Vredenburch family reports van 't Sant for fraud and forgery, reference is made to ' London and the case of 't Sant' by A. den Doolaard. At the end of May 1938, the preliminary judicial investigation into criminal offenses committed by van 't Sant was definitively closed due to a lack of evidence.
Commissioned by Queen Wilhelmina
The assumption that Princess Juliana was pregnant at that time and, according to a forged document, only gave birth to a child on March 11, 1927, implies that the reader must already be informed at this stage of publication about the persons involved in the settlement of this royal scandal played a prominent role. It thus gives the reader the opportunity, if his curiosity is aroused, to do further research himself into everything that is brought to the forefront here.
In addition to Queen Wilhelmina, Prince Hendrik and their daughter Princess Juliana, the following persons are closely involved in this secret mission 'aborted' in December 1927: Francois van 't Sant, Wilhelmina's confidant and until January 1, 1935 chief of police in The Hague; Jr. mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, chief of diplomatic affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, minister from April 1927 and vice president of the Council of State from 1933; his wife Jr. Marie A. Snoeck, lady-in-waiting until 1905 and friend of Wilhelmina; his eldest son Jr. mr. Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland, orderly officer [1943-1945] in the service of Wilhelmina in London during World War II; Jr. mr. GCW van Tets van Goudriaan, Director of the Queen's Cabinet from 1921 to 1945, chamberlain since 1909 and from 1921 chamberlain in Extraordinary Service of Wilhelmina until his death in 1948; Jr. Dr. Carel van Vredenburch, the Envoy who died suddenly on December 3, 1927, and his son Jhr. mr. Hendrik FLK van Vredenburch and Mr. Johan Paul Count of Limburg Stirum, who became envoy in Berlin on April 1, 1927. This count, chamberlain in extraordinary service of Wilhelmina since 1904, was like Mr. ACD de Graeff, a student friend of Mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland.
Jr. mr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland was appointed chamberlain in extraordinary service by Queen Wilhelmina on 1 January 1927 and in 1948 he also entered the service of Queen Juliana in the same confidential position.
The 'duty of confidentiality' applied to this position. Biographical sources indicate that both Francois van 't Sant and Jhr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland fulfilled secret assignments for Queen Wilhelmina.
In the autumn of 1926 this esquire, chief of diplomatic affairs at the ministry, was already mentioned as the possible successor of the then still living Envoy Mr. Carel van Vredenburch who, due to the ill health of his Italian wife, had ' [Rome] had requested. This Jhr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland with the year 1927.
On March 3, 1927, there is an official request from the Dutch government to the Belgian government for approval of the appointment of Jhr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland as envoy in Brussels. He was appointed by Royal Decree [KB] on 16 March 1927.
He therefore works there temporarily until his appointment on 1 April 1927 as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 1st cabinet De Geer, after that ministry was first offered to Mr. Octave van Nispen tot Sevenaer in March 1927. From December 1915 to May 1926 Squire Octave van Nispen tot Sevenaer was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See in Rome. However, the House of Representatives turned off the money tap for this diplomatic post at the Vatican. This squire was then posted to Vienna until his appointment to the same position in Brussels in February 1928.
Also important in this research are some newspaper reports of, among others, April 5, 1927, in which it was reported that Jhr. Carel van Vredenburch was willing, in the interest of the state, to renounce his appointment in Rome, where he and his family wanted to go. He would not stay in Brussels temporarily, but permanently. The appointment of Jr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland as minister played a role in this. In those months, the treaty with Belgium, which was ultimately torpedoed by the Senate, was a hot issue in the political field.
And then there is, Jr. Heinrich van Vredenburch, the son of the Envoy and at the time a law student at the University of Utrecht, who, as the only son of the Envoy, was confronted with the 'Elisabeth le Roi' affair at the beginning of December 1927, when Francois Van 't Sant just before the funeral appeared on the scene.
The contours of a mission
On the basis of the 'preliminary' assumption of a 'full-term' pregnancy, a sexual 'initiation ritual' took place in early February 1926 with unintended consequences. The 16-year-old princess became pregnant. The survival of the monarchy was at stake and of course the major constitutional consequences if this 'Royal scandal' were to become an open secret. There was only one person the queen trusted at that time and that was Van 't Sant, who had been called in by Wilhelmina on several occasions to financially settle the consequences of, among other things, sexual behavior by Prince Hendrik and illegitimate children born from liaisons as discreetly as possible. to prevent publicity or involvement of the Public Prosecution Service in these princely scandals.
Given Wilhelmina's own experiences as a pregnant woman in the first 10 years of her bad marriage, a miscarriage could make a less problematic end to this royal nightmare. However, their prayers have not been answered.
Attempting an early termination of pregnancy after discovering that Juliana was pregnant was absolutely not an option, not only on religious grounds, but also because of the great physical risks of the 1920s.
The minor Juliana was the only heir to the throne and if she was no longer able to have children after an intervention, the end of the monarchy was near and the role of the Oranges in the Netherlands was over.
What remained was a hell of a job, a secret mission for the queen and country.
A hitherto secret mission that was initiated by the arrival of Chief Commissioner of the Hague police F. van 't Sant in December 1927, just before the funeral of envoy Jhr. Carel Van Vredenburch, took an unexpected turn.
Some noble protagonists I
On the basis of new indications in public sources, the friendship between Jhr. mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland and Vredenburch's envoy in the autumn of 1926, when the chief of diplomatic affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brussels was involved in negotiations on the treaty with Belgium, which was rejected by the House of Representatives in January 1927.
That 'friendship' was celebrated at his father's funeral on 8 December 1927 by son Jhr. Heinrich [in 1928 Hendrik, known as 'Henny'] van Vredenburch, emphatically confirmed in a word of thanks.
Research has shown that the career of both Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland as that of the son of the deceased envoy is of crucial importance, not only in relation to the secret mission, but also because of the possible connection with Wilhelmina's 'disappeared' file since the start of WWII.
The personal relationship between Her Majesty Wilhelmina and Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland started in 1913, when Jhr. Frans as envoy in Beijing since 1909, was back in the Netherlands on leave for some time and he and his family, at the invitation of Wilhelmina, stayed at 't Loo Palace. His wife Jkvr. MA Snoeck was the queen's favorite lady-in-waiting between 1900 and 1905. After her marriage in 1905 to Jhr. Frans and their departure to China in 1909, Wilhelmina maintained a lot of contact with her former lady-in-waiting through an intensive correspondence.
In 1919 Jr. Frans was declared 'persona non grata' by the Chinese government and the esquire and his family returned to the Netherlands for an office position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After a reorganization there, he was appointed Chief of Diplomatic Affairs by Minister van Karnebeek. At that time, the esquire was described in Hague circles as 'a dandy' who never missed an opportunity to show himself.
In 1923, to the surprise of many, Wilhelmina appointed him cabinet formateur. That attempt failed.
On August 30, 1926, when Juliana was already six months pregnant, Jonkheer Frans became Grand Officer of Orange Nassau.
On November 2 of that year he received permission from Wilhelmina to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown in Italy. From October 1926, therefore, meetings with the envoy Carel van Vredenburch followed in Brussels regarding the treaty with Belgium. On 5 November 1926, Wilhelmina commissioned the envoy to attend the wedding of the Crown Prince of Belgium and the Duchess of Brabant on her behalf.
On December 22, 1926, Beelarts was appointed, with effect from January 1, 1927, as chamberlain in the extraordinary service of HM and later also of Queen Juliana, thus sealing the 'duty of secrecy' that was necessary for the 'secret' mission.
At the same time, as can be seen from the personnel file of the Embassy in Brussels, Jonkheer Frans also worked there during the first three months.
On February 9, 1927, Jhr. Beelaerts van Blokland member of the Leiden University Council. On March 31, 1927, Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland is therefore minister of foreign affairs as successor to minister van Karnebeek.
Son 'Heinrich' van Vredenburch started law studies in Utrecht in 1924. His remarkable diplomatic career began in 1932, the year in which the noble family of Vredenburch accused Chief Commissioner van 't Sant, five years after his 'credible' Elisabeth le Roi story in December 1927, of forgery and fraud and filed a complaint with the OM. In 1932 he became an attaché at the legation council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the same year attaché in Switzerland, where on September 26, together with Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland attended a meeting of the League of Nations. In 1933 he was made available for his involvement in a fatal traffic accident in Zeist.
Jonkheer 'Henny' was married in 1931 to Eliza Dorothea baroness van Tuyll van Serooskerken. The divorce followed on October 25, 1934, and two weeks later, on November 7, 1934, he remarried in London to Mrs. Irene Pauw van Wieldrecht. In January 1935, when Van 't Sant entered the service of Wilhelmina after his honorable discharge as chief of police as a result of the investigation of the court of honor into "the Elisabeth le Roi case", Jhr. 'Henny' van Vredenburch by minister Jhr. ACD de Graeff appointed Attaché at the Consulate General in Hamburg. In diplomatic circles this was called a 'very unusual placement'. The purpose of that placement was to see if the son of the envoy who died in 1927 could walk in line again. He apparently provided that proof, because in 1936 he leaves for Buenos Aires in Argentina. In 1939 he became deputy chief of the Political Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And as reported, his name reappears on May 13, 1940, when, like F. van 't Sant and Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, the vice-president of the Council of State, also known as the Viceroy of the Netherlands, he in the wake of Wilhelmina went into exile. Historical sources report that, after the indictment was filed in 1932, between Minister of Foreign Affairs Jhr. Beelaerts van Blokland and van 't Sant have been consulted. In 1956 Jhr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland, at the request of Her Majesty, all documents relating to the 'Elisabeth le Roi' affair. As already mentioned, his eldest son still found a file in the estate about the case of '
In the same year 1956, in which Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland died, the archives of the Brussels legation, much of which had already been destroyed, were sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The archive has been cleaned up again. The inventory of that archive [national archive] still shows that, among other things, identity documents were issued. There was a register of, among other things, proofs of Dutch nationality issued to individuals, advances granted and documents concerning the nationality of individuals [1927].
Johan Paul Count of Limburg Stirum was appointed on 1 April 1927 in Berlin. Apart from van 't Sant, this count was also charged by Queen Wilhelmina with secret missions in connection with Prince Hendrik's escapades, mainly in Germany.
A striking fact is that at the beginning of April 1928, four months after the death of the Brussels envoy, chief commissioner van 't Sant, Minister Jhr. Beelaerts was sent from Blokland to Berlin. In the interrogations by the honorary council in 1934, this mission to Berlin was used by van 't Sant in his 'Elisabeth le Roi' story.
There are indications that in the years after the Brussels mission was broken off, another solution was still being sought. Other members of the House of Limburg Stirum come into the picture, namely descendants of the Belgian branch of Limburg Stirum in Huldenberg near Brussels and Wigbold AW Count van Limburg Stirum, who arrived in 1919 on Ellis Island New York and became a stockbroker. It cannot be ruled out whether Van t'Sant also spoke with the envoy in Berlin during later meetings about the Dutch East Indies as a country where Marie Claire could be accommodated via youth care Batavia. Some documents in this regard are being studied in more detail. According to mr. Albrecht Willem [Pim] Lier, another illegitimate child of Prince Hendrik, the chief commissioner also discussed this possibility with his mother in the 1920s, but that did not happen. An important fact is that both Johan Graaf van Limburg Stirum and Mr. Andries de Graeff were Governor-General in the Dutch East Indies. The latter was between September 1926 and 1931. In the will of Johan Paul Count van Limburg Stirum, his student friend Jhr. Andries de Graeff was appointed executor of his will with the assignment to destroy all documents relating to the House of Orange. His archive only contains documents about the years when he was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Andries de Graeff was appointed executor of his will with the assignment to destroy all documents relating to the House of Orange. His archive only contains documents about the years when he was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Andries de Graeff was appointed executor of his will with the assignment to destroy all documents relating to the House of Orange. His archive only contains documents about the years when he was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
The Brussels mission December 1926 - December 1927
The preparations for the mission started in the autumn of 1926. The discovery of the pregnancy, the role of Prince Hendrik as the father and, as already indicated, the major consequences, including the continued existence of the monarchy and other constitutional complications, necessitated absolute secrecy.
In that sense, the mission can still be described as 'successful'.
On the basis of the current state of research, it is assumed that one of the aims of the Brussels mission, which was aborted in December 1927, was to provide the then 'unborn child', if it were to be born healthy and well, with a low nobility and Belgian nationality. There are several indications that the infant was first placed with the St. Anna Foundation, The Hague department and was only transferred to Moederheil Breda in April 1927, according to the falsely drawn up documents. Until the verdict in June 1936 she remained with the Roman Catholic foundation Moederheil. Both institutions mentioned were led by the 'Little Sisters of Saint Joseph'.
There are several indications that more preparations were already underway at an early stage at the legation in Brussels to make the mission a success. As far as is now clear, the Brussels route via the old noble family of Vredenburch came from Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland [chief of diplomatic affairs] and chief commissioner van 't Sant in close consultation with Wilhelmina.
Francois van 't Sant indicated in his strange story that he was in possession of a declaration of paternity signed by the envoy of Vredenburch. No evidence of this was shown at that meeting.
It is assumed here that such a statement was indeed part of the mission in the preparatory phase. Van 't Sant used this fact in his 'believable' story. If a signed statement existed, it can only mean that the envoy became part of this 'secret' mission out of absolute loyalty to Her Majesty.
At his funeral, Prime Minister de Geer gave a speech in which he described the envoy as "a tried servant of the queen and country. May that be some consolation".
If anyone was already eligible for the possible signing of that declaration of paternity, it was his son Jhr. Heinrich van Vredenburch, who, according to the brother of the dead envoy, was only informed about his father's behavior after payment of 40,000 guilders on December 10, 1927, but kept aloof from the affair in the following years. It was he who, according to public sources, was quite resistant when Jhr. Jan van Vredenburch, the brother of the deceased, wanted to start civil proceedings against van 't Sant in 1932. Remarkable is a newspaper article of November 28, 1932, in which Mr. Jan van Vredenburch was mentioned as state agriculture consultant at the embassy in Berlin, where Johan Paul Count van Limburg Stirum held sway.
In the end, the son agreed. Until 1932, this brother was the unpaid Dutch national agriculture consultant in Belgium, who in the years before conducted research into Elisabeth le Roi and made inquiries with van 't Sant about the envoy's non-existent' mistress. Reference is also made here to the existing literature on this case, including the book 'Van de Prins no evil' [1982] by Hugo Arlman and Gerard Mulder.
The fact that she did not exist could not be denied by the family in the civil proceedings after the indictment of Jhr. Jan van Vredenburg, who in 1932 on behalf of the son Jhr. 'Hendrik' van Vredenburg had been submitted against van 't Sant.
It has been established that by Decision Judgment Pb. The Hague of 5 October 1928 the German first names of this son were changed. There is also a source that gave the date February 28, 1928. His first name 'Heinrich' then became 'Hendrik', nickname 'Henny'. It is not yet known when the son submitted the request for a name change.
Striking and a fact that will be investigated further is a found notarial deed, which Philip Dröge reported in his book 'Het Oranjecapital'. It concerned the sale on 6 November 1937 of a parcel of land [10 acres] with 'real estate' in Glades County, Florida, for 1 dollar to Queen Wilhelmina. One Dr. Lee Leroy Henry from North Carolina said he did so out of admiration for Wilhelmina.
It appears that this widower from Buncombe County, North Carolina, sold an adjoining piece of land [10 acres] with 'real estate' to King Georg VI of England on the same day. Also for 1 dollar.
The 'Warranty Deed' 25417 states: "To have and to hold unto the said queen Wilhelmina, her heirs and assigns for ever." Under number 25418 is the same text regarding King George VI and his heirs.
The name 'le Roi' has several variants in Europe as well as in the US and Canada. This name can also be found on passenger lists of ships that departed from Antwerp and Hamburg, among others.
The urge to act of Wilhelmina's guardian angel
On the basis of the bizarre 'Elisabeth le Roi' story, it can only be concluded afterwards that the sudden death of the envoy on the evening of December 3, 1927 for the Hague protagonists in the highly secret mission to kill Marie Claire, a child of Princess Juliana, through the legation in Brussels, to provide a future desired by the royal family, was a very unexpected setback.
Given the urge to act of Chief Commissioner van 't Sant on the Sunday after the death of the envoy and the story he invented, this unexpected event must have caused quite a bit of panic at the palace.
It has been established that Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. F. Beelaerts van Blokland was then in Geneva for deliberations of the League of Nations on a conflict between Poland and Lithuania, which meant that close and direct consultations took place about the consequences for the secret mission and the strategy to be followed after the situation was impossible. The esquire was also not at the envoy's funeral.
It is strange that the writer A.den Doolaard did not want to investigate exactly when and where the first meeting between van 't Sant and Jhr. Jan van Vredenburch, the younger brother of the deceased, took place.
On Sunday afternoon, December 4, Van 't Sant had already contacted Mayor Patijn of The Hague and, on his advice, later that afternoon also contacted the Minister of Foreign Affairs Van Karnebeek, a friend of the Vredenburch family. After the minister had become aware of the story about 'Elisabeth le Roi' and the arrangement that van 't Sant wanted to make with the family, the minister, on behalf of the chief commissioner, contacted jhr Jan van Vredenburch to discuss the matter, given the delicate nature, discreet and quick to handle.
However, the date and the meeting place were not mentioned in the arbitral award of the honorary council in 1935. In his book, den Doolaard wrote that those facts were unimportant. What mattered, he wrote, was only what had been discussed between the two before the funeral. So the invented 'Elisabeth le Roi' story.
The fact that the envoy's younger brother himself did not mention that date and place of meeting makes this even more strange, because uncle Jan has stated that he wanted to keep the widow and also the son out of the matter 'for the sake of piety', but Jhr. 'Henny', then still Heinrich van Vredenburch, the 'beaten path' and, according to his uncle, 'barely grown' law student, had to give official permission for the agreed money transaction that Elisabeth le Roi's lips had to seal. The message that the only heir received from his uncle Jan was that something had happened to his father, which he was not allowed to ask about, that it involved an amount of 40,000 guilders and that it was nothing dishonorable. So also the uncle, if it turned out that way according to his later statement, began to lie.
No source mentions whether the 3rd year law student and sole heir of the envoy in this case was ever heard in the 'Elisabeth le Roi' case. It is reported that he had great difficulty with Uncle Jan's attempts to clarify this dark matter, although it concerned the honor and good name of his father and his family. In the end, Uncle Jan managed to persuade him with great persuasion and research results to submit an official complaint to the Public Prosecution Service against van 't Sant on behalf of the direct descendant of the deceased envoy in 1932, after the death of his mother.
In that same year, as already written, the special and long diplomatic career of the 'quick-witted' Mr. 'Henny' van Vredenburch, who after the war mastered the diplomatic game of probing and maneuvering very well and therefore also exercised a guiding influence.
It is believed here that the son was assigned a role in the secret mission through his father regarding Marie Claire's declaration of paternity. From that fact, arising from the hypothesis, the arrival of Chief Commissioner van 't Sant and his fabricated 'Elisabeth' story is provided with a more logical framework, within which the motives and motives of his unexpected visit are placed in a different light.
It is also assumed here that son 'Henny' was the only one who had access to his father's personal archive after his father's death.
It is stated in 'Van de Prins no harm' that Van 't' Sant stated before the council of honor in 1934 that the envoy's son, Jonkheer Henny van Vredenburch himself had letters, 40,000 guilders and a portrait of a lady in the desk drawer of his father had found and later destroyed it. The son has never had to deny or confirm that. Uncle Jan denied the story that van 't Sant stated before the honorary council.
Elisabeth le Roi was Crown Princess Juliana
In 1980, the writer A. den Doolaard wondered what Queen Wilhelmina knew about the Vredenburch case.
30 years after Lou de Jong's revelation in 1979 about the progenitor role of Prince Hendrik, on the basis of this research, it can be confirmed that Queen Wilhelmina was indeed fully aware of this matter. It is also clear that in December 1927 van 't Sant acted on behalf of Wilhelmina after consultation with Mr. Beelaerts van Blokland in Switzerland. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was informed of the death of the envoy on the evening of December 3, 1927.
The envoy in Brussels was one of those involved in the secret mission who made preparations to shape the future of the child of Princess Juliana, who was temporarily housed in Moederheil, at the request of Wilhelmina. Due to the absence of the other protagonist Jhr. Frans Beelearts van Blokland van 't Sant had to try under great time pressure to prevent the 'secret of Orange' from leaking due to the sudden disappearance of the most central figure in the secret mission.
The question is therefore whether van 't Sant knew whether the envoy had already confided in his son 'Heinrich' during the preparation phase, and if so, then van 'Sant also had to wonder whether this young, intelligent student, shaken and mourning, could keep his mouth shut about that. Now it is clear that he then sealed his lips permanently.
In addition, there was a risky fact regarding the personal archive of the envoy, which may contain documents, letters, notes, instructions, etc., which had to remain absolutely secret. This too became part of the 'Elisabeth le Roi' story that van 't Sant invented to realize his hidden 'royal' agenda, to abort the secret mission, under difficult circumstances.
A shocking story that silenced not only the son, but also the brother of the envoy, until this family member slowly became suspicious and wrote his first letter to van 't Sant on November 7, 1929. As already indicated, in 1932 the son had no choice but to finally give his uncle Jan van Vredenburch permission to file an indictment on his behalf against van 't Sant, the police chief of The Hague, for fraud and forgery.
The fact that Vredenburch's case was connected to the royal family is also clear from the guiding and training role of Queen Wilhelmina and others directly involved in the long process and the destruction, except for one file, of her own archive documents in the Vredenburch case. .
The historian Lou de Jong about van 't Sant, after he was taken into private service by Queen Wilhelmina in 1935, after his honorable discharge as Chief Commissioner of Police: "It goes without saying that Queen Wilhelmina praised him for his attitude and especially for deeply grateful for the sacrifice he had made. Afterwards she trusted no one more than van 't Sant; who could ever prove so convincingly that he was worthy of her trust?"
A. den Doolaard's answer to this in 1980 was: "In my opinion, these terms suggest, without being accompanied by any evidence, that Queen Wilhelmina would have known how van 't Sant had saved Prince Hendrik's name at the expense of her own. envoy in Brussels; in short, that she, the Landsvrouwe, had tolerated his, to put it mildly, highly unseemly behavior to the detriment of a prominent official of the country in order to keep the coat of arms of Orange unstained".
On December 6, the queen sent a telegram to the widow and son of envoy van Vredenburch.
Wilhelmina was represented at the funeral by Jhr. WM de Brauw, chamberlain in extraordinary service and also legal adviser to HM and its treasurer, Mr. HJ Repelaer van Driel. Prince Hendrik was personally present, as was Prime Minister de Geer, who gave a speech. Mrs. MA Snoeck, the wife of missing leading actor Mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, was also there, of course.
It is not known whether Chief Commissioner van 't Sant, the inventor of the, according to the son, unbelievable story about Elisabeth le Roi and her son 'Henny', was among the mourners. The fact is that in this affair Elisabeth played a starring role as a phantom, leading many to the royal garden of delights in their search for her true identity.
The name 'Henny' of Elisabeth's son is also an intriguing fact in this, because both sources indicate in relation to Prince Hendrik that it concerned a girl who was registered with the Moederheil foundation on 11 March 1927 and who, after the aborted mission, was first 'Little Sisters of Saint Joseph' was raised and placed in a Roman Catholic orphanage until she was 9 years old.
In 1928 the name 'Henny' became, as already mentioned, the nickname of Mr. Heinrich van Vredenburch, the son of the deceased envoy.
These kinds of apparent coincidences can also indicate that the murky story of Chief Commissioner van 't Sant contained a message in addition to deception and hush money. If that were the case, then that unknown initiate could be none other than Mr. Henny van Vredenburch. In view of his attitude in this family affair, his diplomatic career from 1932, the making available of the diplomat Mr. Henny van Vredenburch in 1933, the marital problems at the end of 1934, his impending discharge from the diplomatic service and his passage under the wing of Wilhelmina to England on May 13, 1940, then that cannot be ruled out.
For how it happened later in practice and which authorities were involved in the institutions managed by the foundation Moederheil [the later 'Valkenhorst'], among others, reference is made here to the book "Whoever gets shaved must sit still"; the interaction of Dutch girls with German soldiers, written by Monika Diederichs [online on the internet]. It gives a picture of the origins of youth care, the role of the local guardianship councils in relation to, among others, Moederheil Breda, the Diocese of Breda and the public Poor Board. The latter dealt with the finances related to the care and education of the children. The 47,000 guilders that van 't Sant received from the Vredenburch family will probably have been used to pay Marie Claire because the secret mission had to be aborted.
In what form, a one-off amount or in installments, that was poured is not known.
On March 11, 1948, Marie Claire turned 21. That legally meant that the guardianship came to an end. On September 6 of the same year, her mother, Princess Juliana, became Queen of the Netherlands.
The Exile of Marie Claire 1936
Among the regents involved in Marie Claire's exile were some members of Mierlo's family. In June 1936, Jacob H. van Mierlo was the secretary of the Breda Guardianship Council. ELHM van Mierlo was alderman in Breda and a member of the Civil Poor Board there and then there was also the banking house Van Mierlo & Zn, which, like the bankers Ingenhousz, managed money from the orphans. The latter was commissioned by the RK Burgerweeshuis Breda. mr. GJM Ingenhousz was also president of the Arr. court, where judge jhr. mr. Lodewijk JM van Sasse van Ysselt passed the verdict on the banishment of Marie Claire. His daughter Marianne Auguste van Sasse van Ysselt [1925-1999] later married Caspar EAM van de Mortel [1917-2005], the son of the alderman and later mayor of Tilburg, who was chairman of the guardianship council of Tilburg in June 1936 in the court case about the exile. Auguste Henri Marie, the brother of Judge Jhr Lodewijk van Sasse van Ysselt, was chaplain of the St.Annaparochie on the Haagweg in Breda. Their sister Marie Olivie Josephine worked as a sister of charity in Tilburg at the Good Shepherd, where Cornelia Roovers was housed in 1935.
Dr. Jacobus Johannes van Mierlo was a banker/physician and Herman JA van Mierlo was pastor and dean of Roosendaal, the place where Cornelia Roovers stayed at Bloemenmarkt 13 before her admission to the Good Shepherd in 1935. During the many legal proceedings, Marie Claire wrote the following letter to Minister Hans van Mierlo in 1995.
In June 1934, the protagonist Prince Hendrik died. That was also the year in which the secret council of honor was set up to investigate "the Van 't Sant case". The following persons were appointed to that honorary council.
The chairman became Mr. Ch.Ruijs de Beerenbrouck , a chamberlain in Extraordinary Service of Wilhelmina from 1913 to April 1936. His sister, Mrs. Louise MEA Ruijs de Beerenbrouck [1975-1948] was a religious in The Hague.
Of the members of the honorary council, only this esquire was in possession of the only copy of the final report, which he kept in his personal archive. Whether that single copy was part of his estate or whether it was deposited somewhere is not known. The possibility that it was part of the 'secret package of papers' that Wilhelmina deposited in the safe at her own Cabinet in 1935 and retrieved it on May 7, 1940, just before her flight to England, cannot therefore be ruled out. The esquire died on April 7, 1936, less than a year after the honorary council had pronounced its very lenient judgment on Van 't Sant on June 28, 1935. Not long after his death, on June 30, Marie Claire was officially exiled and on July 6, 1936, the 9-year-old orphan was transferred to the boys' boarding school 'Huize Nazareth' in Tilburg on the basis of false documents. The other three members were the state lawyer, jhr. WMde Brauw, acting as lawyer of F. van 't Sant and of the Royal House. His son Mr. Jaap de Brauw was, when the 'Elisabeth Le Roi' affair started in December 1927, a friend from Utrecht University of Mr. Henny van Vredenburch, the son of the deceased envoy in Brussels; Mr. BC de Savornin Lohman, advisor to Wilhelmina until 1924, a position held by Mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland since his appointment in 1933 as Vice-President of the Council of State and the very elderly Mr. AFO by Sasse van Ysselt. Just like Ruijs de Beerenbrouck also from a Catholic family. According to public sources, the name of Prince Hendrik was not mentioned during this investigation by the honor council.
On January 1, 1935, Chief Commissioner Van 't Sant was honorably discharged by Royal Decree. On that same day, he entered the service of Queen Wilhelmina as her self-sacrificing guardian angel and sole confidant in private matters, a servant of the crown who has saved the royal family from impending doom since the birth of Marie Claire in 1926.
From June 1, 1935 articles appeared in the press about the 'secret' council of honor and the case of 't Sant. The criminal investigation led by examining magistrate Mr. AWJ van Vrijberghe de Coningh in the van 't Sant case was continued despite Wilhelmina's attempts to prevent this. As already written, that preliminary investigation was terminated in 1938 due to a lack of evidence.
Before the exile of Marie Claire in June 1936, from 1929 Jhr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland and his student friend JP Count van Limburg Stirum, the envoy in Berlin, were engaged in a secret mission by order of Queen Wilhelmina to find a suitable marriage partner for Princess to find Juliana. Prince Bernhard came into the picture at the end of 1935, followed by a first meeting on February 11, 1936 with Juliana in the Iglerhof hotel in Igls in Austria. On August 15, 1936, the couple became engaged.
In that same year, the later commander of the Princess Irene Brigade, Major Jan Beelaerts van Blokland [nickname Mickey] became a friend of Prince Bernhard. This esquire was a son of Mr. Johannes Beelaerts van Blokland, a member of the Senate and the brother of Mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, a key player in the case of 't Sant.
"Major Mickey" can therefore be connected to the missing "pack of papers" that was only allowed to be viewed by Juliana after Wilhelmina's death.
It has been established that it was not until the court case of June 1936 that Marie Claire was officially given a false identity and became 'Maria Jacoba Roovers' for the State of the Netherlands. From that moment on, the falsely drawn up document from the Registry Office in Ginneken from 1927, as an essential part of the secret mission, became an 'authentic' document for the judiciary. It also meant that Marie Claire had Dutch nationality from 1936, ending Francois van 't Sant's secret mission.
Jonkheer Jan van Vredenburch, like the Public Prosecution Service in The Hague, failed to prove that Elisabeth le Roi did not exist between 1932 and 1938. No 'authentic' documents have been found about Elisabeth le Roi that could confirm her existence.
In the state dispute, Marie Claire had to prove that the biological mother registered in 1927 at the Civil Registry was not her real biological mother. That evidence was there. Just as there was evidence that the court in Den Bosch kept postponing announced witness hearings and court dates, because it was known that Marie Claire would not have long to live.
In 1997, the publisher 'De Bataafsche Leeuw' in Amsterdam published a book entitled "Experiences in London 1940-1945", written by Mr. Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland [1908-1997], the eldest son of leading actor Mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland. These fragmented memories show that this orderly officer of Queen Wilhelmina was not aware of the actual course of events in the van 't Sant case and that his father never spoke of it either.
Below are three quotes from that book:
- "In the past I had never delved into 'the Van 't Sant case'. I did know that the case was very complicated. It could not be resolved. It was therefore logical that the honorary council in which 'my father' had a seat concluded that there was insufficient evidence for the guilt of Mr van 't Sant, who had requested financial compensation from the father of the child on behalf of a pregnant woman. The father had died in the meantime. The son preferred that payment be made and the case the cover-up was stopped, but the brother of the deceased father believed that Van 't Sant had made up the whole story to enrich himself. All this took place in 1927."
- "Even when I regularly met Mr. Van 't Sant in England during the war, I never mentioned this matter. He did tell me that he had to transfer money on behalf of the Queen to his brother in Switzerland in order to be able to make certain payments. I never asked or thought about it any further, the matter was none of my business and given the 'hear, see and speak no evil' rule I didn't want to know too much, that might tempt me to start talking. "
- "My father, who had been a member of the committee on the assessment of Mr Van 't Sant's actions, found no reason to suggest that the Queen withdraw confidence in Van 't Sant. I would like to note that 'the Van 't Sant case' was first publicized by the NSB. distillery, the distrust of him increased." [end quotes]
As mentioned earlier, his father was not a member of the 'secret' council of honor. His father Jr. mr. Frans Beelaerts van Blokland was closely involved in the composition of the council of honor in 1934 as a key player and was heard as a 'witness' in the Van 't Sant case.
The photo was taken in April 1926, when 16-year-old Juliana was almost three months pregnant.
Follow the trail back 3
Below is Marie Claire's letter of 30 July 1995 to Queen Beatrix, which, through the intervention of Felix Rhodius, then director of the Queen's Cabinet, did not end up on the Queen's desk, but was forwarded to the Ministry of Justice for processing. It was not until January 13, 1996 that Mr. ten Siethoff who, on behalf of the State Secretary, advised Marie Claire to contact the FIOM in Den Bosch.
The Exile of Marie Claire 1936 [continued]
Below is part of the petition from the Breda Guardianship Council to ban 9-year-old Marie Claire from the orphanage on Nieuwstraat in Breda.
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But who is that actually? Our Queen? That is the question posed in a new book by Ine Veen.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Rumors have been circulating for years that the Queen has no right to the Dutch throne and is therefore sitting there illegally. In 1884 the very last real Prince of Orange died, and now we suddenly have a whole family. How is that even possible…? What is true about all the illegitimate children of Prince Hendrik and Prince Bernhard? Is Beatrix actually Juliana's first child, because who is that mysterious Marie-Claire? How, moreover, did the Oranges arrive at the enormous fortune they would possess? Only because of Wilhelmina's Shell shares? A very unusual book that critically examines our royal family. The outcome is surprising: maybe this family is just as 'royal' as you and me.
The appearance of this book reminded me of Marie Claire (1926-1997), who should have been our Queen after Juliana. But as the incestuous daughter of Juliana and his father Prince Hendrik, this was obviously not feasible. The story that the queen is a product of inter-familial fertilization from father to daughter, who is also a minor at the time, is of course not marketable to the Dutch people. The Lockheed affair and Bernhard's NSDAP membership are child's play. Good Lord. This makes Bernhard's extramarital escapades pale, as historian Jan Kikkert put it to me. So Marie Claire was thrown into the trash immediately after she was born, deprived of a stable childhood and the knowledge of who her parents are.
But where does this story actually come from? Who is the source for that? Well, we cannot offer you a more reliable source. A source of name and fame. Criminal law scholars of the greatest stature. The source is namely the lawyers Carrie and Geert Jan Knoops (photo: Carry Knoops) who have assisted Marie Claire for years in her fight for the right to know who her parents are. “The most secret file of our office”, Carry calls it. She told Micha Kat that Maria Roovers, who preferred to call herself Marie Claire, was the secret daughter of the late Prince Hendrik (the Prince Consort of Wilhelmina) and his daughter the late Queen/Princess Juliana, who would give birth to this child at the age of 17. to have. Since then a lot has happened, we have learned a lot and are fascinated by this story,
Furthermore, I have found that so far none of the mainstream media wants or dares to burn their fingers to tell the story, while I believe that historically and constitutionally, it is an important drama with the ingredients of a Ludlum thriller. So besides educational, it is also exciting and tragic.
I still don't understand why the Knoops think they have to keep this big secret and especially for whom, but I don't have to anymore either. The burden has been lifted posthumously by Marie Claire herself. After intensive Googling, employees of this site discovered that Marie Claire herself had left an extensive file through her support father Gerard Timmers, who died a few years later than herself. He donated the entire life story of Marie Claire in 2001, just before his death, for public inspection at the Catholic Documentation Center of Radboud University. After some discussion with archivist Peters whether the file was indeed public, as access had never been requested, it turned out that father Timmers had indeed intended it for public access. so that Marie Claire's story could one day be shared with the public. So in the summer of 2009 we went to Nijmegen with a trio, including Wim and cameraman Eric, where we were warmly welcomed by Mr. Peters, who was ready with a trolley of 10 virgin files, each containing hundreds of pages. It was immediately clear to us that we were the first to feast our eyes on this wealth of autobiographies, documents and correspondences. However, we didn't have time to read it all that day. So Wim started photographing with the digital camera. Because such a camera can only contain a limited number of pages, we have made a selection of about 800 pages, which we would like to share with you. So in the summer of 2009 we went to Nijmegen with a trio, including Wim and cameraman Eric, where we were warmly welcomed by Mr. Peters, who was ready with a trolley of 10 virgin files, each containing hundreds of pages. It was immediately clear to us that we were the first to feast our eyes on this wealth of autobiographies, documents and correspondences. However, we didn't have time to read it all that day. So Wim started photographing with the digital camera. Because such a camera can only contain a limited number of pages, we have made a selection of about 800 pages, which we would like to share with you. So in the summer of 2009 we went to Nijmegen with a trio, including Wim and cameraman Eric, where we were warmly welcomed by Mr. Peters, who was ready with a trolley of 10 virgin files, each containing hundreds of pages. It was immediately clear to us that we were the first to feast our eyes on this wealth of autobiographies, documents and correspondences. However, we didn't have time to read it all that day. So Wim started photographing with the digital camera. Because such a camera can only contain a limited number of pages, we have made a selection of about 800 pages, which we would like to share with you. who was already ready with a trolley of 10 virgin ring binders, each containing hundreds of pages. It was immediately clear to us that we were the first to feast our eyes on this wealth of autobiographies, documents and correspondences. However, we didn't have time to read it all that day. So Wim started photographing with the digital camera. Because such a camera can only contain a limited number of pages, we have made a selection of about 800 pages, which we would like to share with you. who was already ready with a trolley of 10 virgin ring binders, each containing hundreds of pages. It was immediately clear to us that we were the first to feast our eyes on this wealth of autobiographies, documents and correspondences. However, we didn't have time to read it all that day. So Wim started photographing with the digital camera. Because such a camera can only contain a limited number of pages, we have made a selection of about 800 pages, which we would like to share with you. So Wim started photographing with the digital camera. Because such a camera can only contain a limited number of pages, we have made a selection of about 800 pages, which we would like to share with you. So Wim started photographing with the digital camera. Because such a camera can only contain a limited number of pages, we have made a selection of about 800 pages, which we would like to share with you.
This is the tragic, poignant story of our forgotten, hushed, discarded Queen. Let's not say In the name of the Queen this time, but In the name of the Queen.
The first page reads:
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The second page is therefore:
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And so you can increase the page number in your browser to and with the last page:
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Mix the genes of Hendrik, Juliana, Wilhelmina and Beatrix together and the end result is Marie Claire. Please see the photos on pages 333 to 344, or 662 to 667.
Of course we would also like to get some currants out of the porridge for you. For example, how about this poignant plea from 1981 to her mother. It is of course striking that Marie Claire writes this letter at a time when Juliana has just handed over the throne to Beatrix. Marie Claire already knows that she appeals to her mother's conscience and heart, and therefore does not enlist the help of the Royal House as an institution. After all, otherwise she would have written this letter to Queen Beatrix. It is also logical that Juliana cannot and should not let her heart, which was undoubtedly the largest of all members of our Royal Family, speak, even if she wanted to. Bernhard, who was the de facto King of the Netherlands because of this knowledge alone, would of course never have allowed this. In light of all this, is it any wonder that Carrie Knoops-Hamburger specifically told Micha Kat that it was the knowledge of Marie Claire's existence and of the manner in which she was conceived that gave Bernhard the required leverage to enable Juliana to could blackmail and prevent the divorce she so fervently desired? Shortly before her death, Marie Claire -again according to Carrie Knoops- received a letter from a member of the Supreme Court revealing her true origin. The letter went with her in her grave. that Carrie Knoops-Hamburger specifically told Micha Kat that it was the knowledge of Marie Claire's existence and of the manner in which she was conceived that gave Bernhard the required leverage with which to blackmail Juliana and obtain the divorce she so fervently desired to prevent? Shortly before her death, Marie Claire -again according to Carrie Knoops- received a letter from a member of the Supreme Court revealing her true origin. The letter went with her in her grave. that Carrie Knoops-Hamburger specifically told Micha Kat that it was the knowledge of Marie Claire's existence and of the manner in which she was conceived that gave Bernhard the required leverage with which to blackmail Juliana and obtain the divorce she so fervently desired to prevent? Shortly before her death, Marie Claire -again according to Carrie Knoops- received a letter from a member of the Supreme Court revealing her true origin. The letter went with her in her grave.
Or how about this letter from 1995 to her younger half-sister or aunt:
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Reminder 1:
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Reminder 2:
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Earlier but slightly different form of this letter to Professor Kooijmans:
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here it becomes clear that Marie Claire has known the truth for a long time, but that she also feels that the truth should not be acknowledged:
Apparently my birth was a delicate matter. A matter so delicate that I am not allowed to know who my father and mother are. The name of Hendrik Wladimir Albrecht Ernst von Mecklenburg-Schwerin fell on various (better informed) sides, but an official confirmation has not yet been received. I never even heard a suspicion about the biological mother. People keep silent about her as if bound by an omerta: she is apparently even more important than this Hendrik. Perhaps this explains why every effort is made to keep me from my origins. Some claim that I will never know, and one person reported with conviction that whoever succeeded in bringing it to light would make history.
It appears from page 820 that her lawyers also knew the truth:
Unfortunately, just like in the Deventer murder case, Geert Jan drops the necessary stitches by not calling essential witnesses. See how MarieClaire complains about that here.
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“You are not from here, you are from The Hague.”
Sister Coleta at a moment when she was alone with MarieClaire:
"You are of royal blood."
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“Once you find out who your parents are, you won't see us anymore”
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Christmas Day, 1984, Queen Beatrix: “Our lives only have meaning if we dare to stand with the oppressed”. Her very own half-sister turns out to be an exception.
Letters from father Gerard Timmers (deceased in 2001) to Joan de Wijkerslooth, president of the Board of Procurators General:
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The highest echelons of our Public Prosecution Service therefore also know the truth. Our Harm's predecessor was well informed by Father Timmers. Half the world knows the truth that must not be acknowledged. For example, the Telegraph. Anita Zijlstra was an admirer and confidante of MarieClaire in her last years.
Marie Claire died saying: I so long for my mother.
We wish you much learning with the life story of our forgotten oppressed Queen. We also express the wish that a historian and a publisher will arise who will go to the KDC of Radboud University to publish the file in book form,
Moreover, this wish is wholeheartedly supported.
Source: Historical research
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