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She was born in The Hague, the daughter of Prince Hendrik (or Heinrich), Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Juliana spent her childhood at Het Loo Palace in ApeldoornApeldoorn is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands. It is a regional centre. Population centres Apeldoorn, Assel, Beekbergen, Beemte-Broekland, Engeland, Groenendaal, Hoenderloo, Hoog Soeren, Hooilanden, Klarenbeek, Lieren, Loenen, Nieuw-Mi, and at Noordeinde PalaceNoordeinde Palace is one of the four official palaces of the Dutch royal family. Located in The Hague in the province of South Holland, it has been used as the "working palace" for Queen Beatrix since 1984. The palace originally started as a medieval farm and Huis ten Bosch PalaceHuis ten Bosch Palace ( Dutch language: House in the forest) is a royal palace in Haagse Bos, The Hague. It was built in 1654 by Pieter Post as a summer home for Princess Amalia, the wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau. in The Hague. A small school class was formed at Huis ten Bosch Palace on the advice of the educator Jan Ligthart so that, from the age of six, the princess could receive her primary education with children of her own age.
As the Dutch constitution specified that she should be ready to succeed to the throne by the age of eighteen, Princess Juliana's education proceeded at a faster pace than that of most children. After five years of primary education, the Princess received her secondary education (to pre- universityA university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. University is derived from the Latin universitas meaning corporation since the first medieval level) from private tutors.
On April 30, 1927Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1927 in aviation 1927 in film 1927 in literature 1927 in mu, Princess Juliana celebrated her eighteenth birthday. Under the constitution, she had officially come of age and was entitled to assume the royal prerogative, if necessary. Two days later her mother installed her in the "Raad van State" ("Council of State"). A young, shy and introvert woman of plain features whose religious mother would not allow her to wear makeup, Juliana did not fit the image of a royal princess. She would, nonetheless, become much loved and respected by most of the Dutch people.
In the same year, the princess enrolled as a student at the University of LeidenUniversiteit van Leiden (UL © Leiden University Motto: Praesidium Libertatis Rector Douwe Breimer School type Public Religious affiliation None Founded 1575 Location Leiden, The Netherlands Enrollment 16614 grad. X post-grad. Faculty 4156 Endowment X Camp. In her first years at university, she attended lectures in sociology, jurisprudence, economics, history of religion, parliamentary history and Constitutional law. In the course of her studies she also attended lectures on the cultures of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, the Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands , international affairs, international law, history, and European law. She was also tutored privately by Professor C. Snouck Hurgonje on the Islamic religion, practiced by some of the people in the Dutch colonies.
In line with the views of the times, Queen Wilhelmina began a search for a suitable husband for her daughter. After meeting His Serene Highness Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games in Bavaria, Princess Juliana's royal engagement was arranged by her mother. In a legal document that spelled out exactly what the German prince could and could not do, and the amount of money he could expect from the sole heir to the fortune of the world's wealthiest woman, the astute Queen Wilhelmina left nothing to chance. Duly signed, the happy couple's engagement was announced on September 8, 1936.
The wedding announcement divided a country that mistrusted Germany under Adolf Hitler. Prior to the wedding, on November 24, 1936, Prince Bernhard was granted Dutch citizenship and was forced to change the spelling of his names from German to Dutch. They married on January 7, 1937, the date on which Princess Juliana's grandparents, King William III and Queen Emma, had married fifty-eight years earlier. The civil ceremony was held in The Hague Town Hall and the marriage was blessed in the Great Church (St. Jacobskerk), likewise in The Hague. The young couple made their home at Soestdijk Palace, Baarn.
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