1954, Queen Juliana En Profile Nederland 35c Olive Green
Text: 35c Nederland
Condition: Ø = used/cancelled
Title: Queen
Juliana - Type 'En Profile'
Face value: 35
Stamp Currency: ct
Country/area: Netherlands
Year: 1954
Set: 1954
Queen Juliana - Type 'En Profile'
Stamp number in set: 1
Basic colour: Olive
Exact colour:
Usage:
Definitive
Type: Stamp
Theme: Heads
of State | Heraldic Animals | Queens | Special Occasions
Stamp subject:
NVPH number: 625
Michel number: 642
Yvert number: 604A
Scott number:
Stanley Gibbons number: 781
Printing office: Joh. Enschedé & Zonen
Perforation: K 13½ : 12¾
Size: 22
x 26 mm
Watermark: Ringen horizontaal
Paper:
Printing: Photogravure
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Juliana (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌjyliˈjaːna], Juliana Louise Emma Marie
Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 –
20March 2004) was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between
1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry. She
was married to Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, with whom she had four
children: Princess Beatrix (born 1938), Princess Irene(born 1939), Princess
Margriet (born 1943), Princess Christina (born 1947). During the Second World War
she lived in exile with her children in Ottawa, Canada. She became Queen of the
Netherlands with her mother's abdication in 1948 and was succeeded by Queen
Beatrix after her own abdication in1980. During her reign both Indonesia (Dutch
East Indies) proclaimed in 1945, but recognized in 1949 and Suriname in 1975
became independent from the Netherlands. Her birthday is celebrated annually as
Koninginnedag, Queen's Day. Upon her death at the age of 94, she was the
longest-lived former ruling monarch in the world. She is commemorated in space,
in the name of the asteroid 816 Juliana.
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