She worked teaching music and French in New York and later she did teach singing, she was a very active patron of the young musician contest named for her and later in life combined music and healing in various ways.
As the daughter of Queen Juliana she was provided for by her mother even though Juliana put much of her own inheritance in the various foundations. So Christina, like Irene and Margriet never needed to work for a living. All three have been very active and done a lot though.
Christina did record a few CD's. One was with Christmas songs and another one with Broadway tunes. The first one was a long wish of her and the second to raise funds to help the victims of attack on the World Trade Centre in her beloved New York.
To be honest she did study singing but i do not thing her talent was at the level for her to ever be the star of the show or a recording artist in her own right. She herself opted only to record when she could help either young musicians or another good course. Her public performances were left to family events.
She did give home concerts and even when she was living in Italy the young musicians taking part in the contest named for her were invited and she would perform with them. All those youngsters came home with a unique experience and lots of praise for the princess. So she must have been very good at making them feel comfortable and being able to give their best performance. In that way she reminds me of her grandmother. Queen Wilhelmina was considered a formidable woman but she also had the talent to put people either at easy or make them uneasy. A gift she inherited from her father Willem III.
Do you know if she ever planned to take up singing professionally?
It was made public in 2018 that she had been suffering from it. The bone cancer was diagnosed a year earlier in 2017.
The princess always reminded me a lot of her maternal grandmother, small, not particularly elegant but with a very strong will and a clear view on matters.
I had secretly hoped she'd outlive her older siblings and as a bright spirited 90-something would be interviewed so we could hear her views on events like the Greet Hofmans-affair, the Lockheed scandal but also on what is was like to grow up at Soestdijk during those years.
Beatrix and Margriet due to their status as members of the Royal House can never do so and Irene has her own view on things but looks at the world more from an angle of spiritual growth. All four sisters inherited a hang to faith from their mother and maternal grandmother but express it in various ways.
I had no idea she was doing that poorly.
It seems strange that the youngest of the four sisters has died.
The loss must be very difficult for her big sister Beatrix who always stepped in to help her baby sister.
She was the last Dutch royal to be born in a Palace (all of the younger generation were born in the delivery room of a hospital). She died at Noordeinde Palace. Of the four sisters she felt most uncomfortable in the role as a royal. She has never given an in depth interview and i understand that. It would however be very interesting to find out how she felt about things that happened in her life and family.
Apparently she had been suffering with bone cancer for several years. According to this article: "Christina's remains will be taken to Fagel's Garden Pavilion on the grounds of Noordeinde Palace, where friends and family will pay their last respects before a private cremation."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dutch-princess-christina-sister-of-former-queen-dies/ar-AAFT5gB
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