Dutch Treat

Princess Juliana, the modest and beloved queen of The Netherlands for 32 years, died early Saturday at the age of 94. During her reign from 1948 to 1980, when she abdicated in favor of her daughter, Queen Beatrix, Juliana eschewed the trappings of her royal domain, regularly dropping by subjects unannounced and asking if she could come in for tea, as though the state-funded largesse of the official palace wasn't enough. She fled with her family from the Nazi invasion in 1940, and returned to a devastated country at the end of the war. She oversaw the reconstruction of the country and gave freedom to former members of the Dutch Empire.