The Hindu : Former Dutch Queen is dead

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Former Dutch Queen is dead

AMSTERDAM: The former Dutch Queen Juliana (in the picture), who presided over the dismantling of the centuries-old Dutch empire and witnessed the birth of a social revolution during her 32-year reign of The Netherlands, died on Saturday. She was 94. Juliana, who had been away from public life for years, died shortly before 6 a.m. at the royal palace in Soestdijk, about 50 km southeast of Amsterdam, the Government announced. ``She died as a result of pneumonia, combined with a general deterioration of health,'' her doctors said. She died in her sleep surrounded by the royal family, said the Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende. Princess Juliana, who gave up the title of queen when she abdicated in favour of her daughter Beatrix in 1980, spent the last decade of her life in seclusion, too ill and mentally feeble to appreciate the adoration of her people. - AP

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