Frases de Guillermina I de los Países Bajos

“the government did not fulfil the urge in their hearts and felt that the public wished to see me openly revealing my sympathy for our kinsmen; how could I as the head of state!”

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

“only in the intimacy with mother I could be just a human”

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

“to one of which I am attached by bonds of friendship, to other by ties of common origin”

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Queen Wilhelmina and the Boers, 1899 - 1902, MA PCNI dissertation, E.R.J.G. Picard, S1029215, Prof.dr.H. te Velde, 26-06-2018.

“Already then, there was in my subconsciousness as unsatisfactoriness about powerlessness, which was accompanied by being locked in a cage, whereby made taking an initiative, of any kind, impossible”

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

“For the whole world I became a heroine, very easy, but not complimentary, since I had done nothing in this case, received the most ridiculous letters from places all over the world; especially a steady flow of praises came from France! I have never seen such a exaggerated reaction”

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

“I have done more for the Boers than my fellow countrymen will ever know”

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands