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The Clandestine Mission of the Dutch Prince Consort

Prince Bernhard secretly supported Westerling's APRA coup. The husband of the Dutch queen had ambitions to become the viceroy.

24 Sep 2023

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Prince Bernhard (turning his head while smiling) among Dutch Commando, September 1944. (commandoveterans.org).

IN the middle of the 1950s, Prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, was caught in the maelstrom of a heated affair that might potentially ignite a national and international scandal. Those close to Prime Minister Willem J. Drees suspected that the prince was involved in a plot devised by Captain Raymond Westerling to overthrow President Sukarno on January 23, 1950, barely a month after the Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty to the Republik Indonesia Serikat (Federal Republic of Indonesia). If the suspicion was proven true, the scandal could rock the world, even threaten the survival of the Orange Dynasty of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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