Word: heeckeren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palace crisis that has openly rocked The Netherlands and not too privately estranged Queen Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhard, moved closer to resolution. Juliana accepted with overflowing gratitude "for services rendered" the resignations of her private secretary, Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, and his buddy, the Queen's chamberlain, Johann van Maasdick. Significance of the quittings: the baron's family first introduced the Queen to Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25), whose metaphysical grip on Juliana led to the crisis...
...three distinguished royal advisers acknowledged that some changes in the royal palace were "possible." Presumably on their way out were Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, the Queen's private secretary, and his mother, grand mistress at court. Both friends of the faith healer, they won ascendancy at court (to the distress of Bernhard's friends and of many Dutch politicos) after the faith healer moved into the palace, hoping to effect a cure by prayer on nine-year-old Princess Marijke, who was born nearly blind...
...said, she had a personal talk with God who offered her miraculous powers for the benefit of her fellow man, if she would renounce all worldly claims. "Of course," Greet Hofmans said, "I accepted." At God's direction, she moved to Hattem, the baronial seat of the Van Heeckeren van Molecatan family. It was there the royal family found...
...with the half-blind little princess, Greet Hofmans bowed her head in prayer and assured Juliana that the child could be cured. The cure, she said, would be a slow one. To supervise the process, Greet Hofmans herself came to live at the palace, and in time Baron van Heeckeren became the Queen's private secretary...
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