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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