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: No big surprises but it adds to the bigger
: picture of Juliana and the marriage
: dynamics. That Juliana considered divorcing
: Bernhard on several occasions and not only
: once during their long and tumultuous
: marriage is not surprising. They both made
: some bad judgement calls during their lives
: and in their marriage. I think most of
: these could have been avoided had they had a
: proper support system to correct their
: thoughts and actions. I think both were
: surrounded by the wrong people during those
: critical moments and it impaired their
: judgement. And of course Bernhard was a
: highly opportunistic and self indulgent
: character but Juliana also had some serious
: flaws and seems to have been a religious
: esoteric from a young age. Juliana and
: Bernhard were products of her time and the
: circumstances in which they were born,
: raised and lived. Today we (also the
: author of the book on Juliana) act surprised
: and judge the foolishness, errors in
: judgement, incomprehensible behaviour and
: dealings that were going on but all of this
: occurred and indeed was only possible in a
: particular context and time. They were
: conditioned to make the choices and mistakes
: they made.
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: At 21.15 tonight on Dutch TV 2, a
: documentary
: is programmed on the late Queen Juliana
: supposed to include hitherto unknown facts.
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