Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Queen Wilhelmina's Will. [ARTICLE]

Queen Wilhelmina's Will.

Queen Wilhelmina even as a child possessed inflexibility of will and in those early days a consciousness that she would one day be queen of the Netherlands. “I do not allow you to entertain your friends in my presence” she remarked at the mature age of 4 to a lady in waiting, upon whom an acquaintance had called one day. When she was about 13 years of age there was an amusing scene between the queen regent and her little daughter arising out of p strong desire of the latter to be present at a banquet given in honor of the German emperor. To all the pleadings of her daughter the queen regent turned a deaf ear, •but there finally remained for the regent one alternative —to herself conduct the recalcitrant young lady to her ’bedroom. This she did, but not without one final energetic protest from the disappointed queen of the future. “I will go on the balcony and tell the Dutch people how you abuse their queen!”