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Queen Willemina of Netherlands funeral Dec 8, 1962

The Netherlands buried Queen Willemina on December 8, 1962 at Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.

Born August 31 1880, Willemina was Queen for fifty-eight years. She became Queen in 1890, on the death of her father. She abdicated in favour of her daughter, Juliana on September 4, 1948. 

Princess Wilhelmina 1893-1896
Issued in 1896 1899
Joseph Vürtheim | Rudolf Stang | Rudolf Stang (E) | Willem Steelink (E)
Queen Wilhelmina - 1899-1921
Issued 1920
Daniël Knuttel | Heinrich Raeder (E) | Louis-Eugène Mouchon (E)
Queen Wilhelmina - 1930
Issued 1930
Designer: Jan VethFokker F VII & Queen Wilhelmina
Issued 1931
Designer: Piet ZwartQueen Wilhelmina 
Issued 1944
Designer:
Jan van Krimpen

Princess Wilhelmina 1893-1896
Issued in 1896 
Designers:  Richard Kameke 
Engravers: E. Schilling  and Heinrich Raeder  

Queen Willelmina – 1899
Issued 1899
Designers: Joseph Vürtheim andRudolf Stang 
Engravers: Rudolf Stang  and Willem Steelink   

Queen Wilhelmina – 1899-1921
Issued 1920 
Designer: Daniël Knuttel
Engravers: Heinrich Raederand Louis-Eugène Mouchon  

Queen Wilhelmina – 1930
Issued 1930
Designer: Jan Veth 

Fokker F VII & Queen Wilhelmina
Issued 1931
Designer: Piet Zwart 

Issued 1944
Designer: Bernard Romein
Engravers Edward Dawson and H. Cole  

An early lesson learned by Wilhelmina was that the Dutch people were not “hers” but that she was “theirs.” This sense of obligation towards the people shaped her life. (On her first public appearance, when she saw the crowd, she asked Queen Emma if “all these people belong to me?” “No, my child,” replied the Queen-Regent, “it is you who belong to all these people.”) Blom comments that while the nineteenth century Dutch monarchs, all men, tension was generated in Dutch public life because of their political ambitions, “their twentieth century successors—all Queens—enjoyed great popularity” and fully respected their constitutional role. Wilhelmina, though, always made her opinion known behind the scene and had a reputation for asking probing questions. Wilhelmina and her daughter both knew how to “embody the unity of the Dutch nation.”[8] During her long reign, she “epitomized the solid Dutch virtues” with her “frugal and unfrivolous dress” (despite her personal wealth) and “was a symbol of continuity in a changing world.”
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands – New World Encyclopedia