Editing Juliana of the Netherlands (section)

==Canadian exile==
[[File:18-jun.-1941 INTERVIEW VANUIT WRUL BOSTON MET PRINSES JULIANA EN PRINS BERNHARD.wav|thumb|left|Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard giving an interview for ''[[Radio Oranje]]'' in 1941]]
On 12 May 1940, during the [[Battle of the Netherlands|invasion of the Netherlands]] by Germany in the [[Second World War]], Prince Bernhard and Princess Juliana were evacuated to the [[United Kingdom]] to be followed the next day by Queen Wilhelmina and the Dutch Government, who set up a [[government in exile]]. The princess remained there for a month before taking the children to [[Ottawa]], the capital of [[Canada]], where she resided at [[Stornoway (residence)|Stornoway]] in the [[suburb]] of [[Rockcliffe Park]]. Her mother and husband remained in Britain with the [[Dutch government-in-exile]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/22/guardianobituaries|title=Queen Juliana of the Netherlands|author=van der Vat, Dan|date=22 March 2004|work=The Guardian|access-date=4 April 2012|location=London|archive-date=6 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006204820/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/22/guardianobituaries|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Koninklijk familie in Canada. Vlnr. prinses Irene, prinses Juliana, prinses Marg, Bestanddeelnr 934-8351.jpg|thumb|Juliana with her husband and daughters in Ottawa in 1943|alt=]]
When her third child, [[Princess Margriet]], was born on 19 January 1943, Governor General [[Lord Athlone]] granted [[royal assent]] to [[Extraterritoriality of Princess Margriet's birth|a special law]] declaring Princess Juliana's rooms at the [[Ottawa Civic Hospital]] to be [[extraterritorial]] in order that the infant would have exclusively Dutch, not [[dual nationality]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/01/19/ |title=CBC Digital Archives: "Netherlands' Princess Margriet born in Ottawa" |publisher=Archives.cbc.ca |access-date=2013-12-09 |archive-date=23 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623231721/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Had these arrangements not been made, Princess Margriet would not be in the [[Line of succession to the Dutch Throne|line of succession]]. The Canadian government flew the Dutch tricolour flag on parliament's [[Peace Tower]] while its [[carillon]] rang out with Dutch music at the news of Princess Margriet's birth. Prince Bernhard, who had remained in [[London]] to assist his mother in law Queen Wilhelmina and the government with operating in exile, was able to visit his family in Canada and be there for Margriet's birth. Princess Juliana's genuine warmth and the gestures of her Canadian hosts created a lasting bond, which was reinforced when Canadian soldiers fought and died by the thousands in 1944 and 1945 to liberate the Netherlands from the [[Nazis]]. She returned with Queen Wilhelmina by a military transport plane to the liberated part of the Netherlands on 2 May 1945, rushing to [[Breda]] to set up a temporary Dutch government. Once home, she expressed her gratitude to Canada by sending the city of Ottawa 100,000 tulip bulbs. Juliana erected a wooden lectern and brass plaque which is dedicated in thanks to the [[St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Ottawa)]] for their hospitality during her residence in Ottawa.
[[File:Prinses Juliana en Kees van Eendenburg (1944).jpg|thumb|left|Juliana meets [[No. 322 (Dutch) Squadron RAF|RAF]] pilot [[Kees van Eendenburg]] at [[Deanland]] in 1944|alt=]]
On 24 June 1945, she sailed on the [[RMS Queen Elizabeth|RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'']] from [[Gourock]], [[Scotland]], to the [[United States]], listing her last permanent residence as [[London]], [[England]]. The following year (1946), Juliana donated another 20,500 bulbs, with the request that a portion of these be planted at the grounds of the Ottawa Civic Hospital where she had given birth to Margriet. At the same time, she promised Ottawa an annual gift of tulips during her lifetime to show her lasting appreciation for Canada's war-time hospitality. Each year Ottawa hosts the [[Canadian Tulip Festival]] in celebration of this gift.

On 2 May 1945, Princess Juliana was returned with her mother to Dutch soil. Initially they lived in temporary quarters at [[Anneville (Ulvenhout)|Anneville]] just south of [[Breda]]. Juliana took part in the post-war relief operation for the people in the northern part of the country who had suffered through starvation during the [[Hunger Winter]] of 1944–1945, which had taken the lives of many of her countrymen. She was very active as the president of the [[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies|Dutch Red Cross]] and worked closely with the National Reconstruction organization. Her down-to-earth manner endeared her to her people so much that a majority of the Dutch people would soon want Queen Wilhelmina to abdicate in favour of her daughter. In the spring of 1946 Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard visited the countries that had helped the Netherlands during the occupation.

During her pregnancy with her last child, [[Princess Christina of the Netherlands|Marijke Christina]], Princess Juliana contracted [[rubella]]. The girl was born in 1947 with [[cataracts]] in both eyes and was soon diagnosed as almost totally blind in one eye and severely limited in the other. Despite her blindness, Christina, as she was called, was a happy and gifted child with a talent for languages and an ear for music. Over time, and with advances in medical technology, her eyesight did improve such that with thick glasses, she could attend school and even ride a bicycle. However, before that happened, her mother, the Princess, clinging to any thread that offered some hope for a cure, came under the strong influence of [[Greet Hofmans]], a [[faith healer]] with [[heterodox]] beliefs, who was considered by "her many detractors" to be a sham.<ref name=guardian/>