Prince Bernhard on the Zandvoort circuit today with his father Prof Pieter Van Vollenhoven
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What a splendid restoration of the Van Vollenhoven Chapel and mausoleum.The chapel with underlying mausoleum for the patrician Van Vollenhoven family has been restored. Picture and link to video: https://www.adelinnederland.nl/de-tempel-van-de-herfstlaan-de-grafkelder-van-vollenhoven/
The chapel was built for one of the ancestors of Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven: the very wealthy Maurits van Vollenhoven (1860-1885) who married the noble jonkvrouwe Maria Louisa van de Poll (1857-1928).
Professor van Vollenhoven was not the first one to marry into a royal family. The beforementioned couple Van Vollenhoven-Van de Poll had a son, Ambassador Dr Maurits Willem Raedinck van Vollenhoven (1882-1976).
This Van Vollenhoven would marry Doña María Cristina de Borbón y Madan (1886-1985), daughter of Don Pedro de Alcántara de Borbón y Borbón (1862-1892), Duque de Dúrcal. Their union was without issue.
The coffins are in the crypt under the chapel, not visible on the pictures.
Other link: https://braam-minnesma.nl/restauratie-grafkapel-van-vollenhoven-afgerond/
This is the Dowager Maurits van Vollenhoven née jonkvrouwe Maria Louisa van de Poll, her remains are in the crypt under this chapel.
Interesting that the Van Vollenhoven family is partly Protestant and partly Catholic.
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A pity they didn't take a tiara for Pss Aimee too. There are so many of them and one of the smaller ones would be appropriate.
A pity they didn't take a tiara for Pss Aimee too. There are so many of them and one of the smaller ones would be appropriate.
A pity they didn't take a tiara for Pss Aimee too. There are so many of them and one of the smaller ones would be appropriate.
My thoughts too,I can't recall ever seeing any of Princess Margriet's daughter in laws wearing a tiara?
Neither the daughter(s)-in-law of Princess Christina. All children of Margriet and Christina are no members of the Royal House.
My thoughts too,I can't recall ever seeing any of Princess Margriet's daughter in laws wearing a tiara?
But Princes Maurits and Bernhard remained members of the Royal House until the abdication of Queen Beatrix.
Yes they were but never wore a tiara other than on the wedding day.
I'm not sure what sort of incomes their husbands have and buying their wives a tiara might have been out of the question.