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<p>[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 257592, member: 301"]<font size="5"><b>History</b></font></p><p>In 1945, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Royal_Family" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Royal_Family" rel="nofollow">Dutch royal family</a> sent 100,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip" rel="nofollow">tulip bulbs</a> to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered Princess Juliana and her daughters for the preceding three years during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" rel="nofollow">Nazi</a> occupation of the Netherlands, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War" rel="nofollow">Second World War</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margriet_of_the_Netherlands" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margriet_of_the_Netherlands" rel="nofollow">Princess Margriet</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Juliana_of_the_Netherlands" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Juliana_of_the_Netherlands" rel="nofollow">Princess Juliana</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ottawa_Hospital" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ottawa_Hospital" rel="nofollow">Ottawa Civic Hospital</a>. The maternity ward was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government, thereby allowing Princess Margriet's citizenship to be solely influenced by her mother's Dutch citizenship.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#cite_note-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]80171[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 257592, member: 301"][SIZE=5][B]History[/B][/SIZE] In 1945, the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Royal_Family']Dutch royal family[/URL] sent 100,000 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip']tulip bulbs[/URL] to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered Princess Juliana and her daughters for the preceding three years during the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism']Nazi[/URL] occupation of the Netherlands, in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War']Second World War[/URL]. The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margriet_of_the_Netherlands']Princess Margriet[/URL] to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Juliana_of_the_Netherlands']Princess Juliana[/URL] at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ottawa_Hospital']Ottawa Civic Hospital[/URL]. The maternity ward was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government, thereby allowing Princess Margriet's citizenship to be solely influenced by her mother's Dutch citizenship.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#cite_note-5'][5][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#cite_note-6'][6][/URL] In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year. [ATTACH=full]80171[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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