Yes I know but I thought that was more about her marriage, do you mind If I continue with this thread.
Queen Emma is one of my favourite royals, and I have hundreds of pictures of here from my own book collection about the Orange-Nassau Royal Family.
The first picture (and close-up) I send is at least I think is a quit rare one it are The Royal Couple King William III and his wife Queen Emma with their only child Princess Wilhelmina at the balcony of the Palace on the Dam in Amsterdam in 1887. It was taken because of the annual visit to the capital, the caption say’s it was the first time Wilhelmina was photographed at this balcony.
The other two pictures are from the Mourning period after the death of Emma’s husband and Wilhelmina’s father William in 1890.
This picture of Queen Emma and her daughter was taken when the visited Rotterdam in 1891 a year after the death of King William III.
Look at the mourning Emma and of her daughter, Wilhelmina is wearing a white dress whit black mourning elements and Emma is in heavily mourning whit her veil. I have a book about Queen Wilhelmina’s wardrobe a wonderful book with beautiful colour pictures of her wardrobe, and also whit colour pictures of her Mourning child dresses from the 1890ties. I don’t think Wilhelmina was very fashionable but when you see her closes in colour especially the ones from 1898 until 1910 she must have looked amazing.
I’m so happy al of dresses still belong to the Royal Museum it Loo and not sold in a auction, so more generations can watch those wonderful dresses
And a picture taken in 1892 in the North of the Netherlands, the women next to the man with the glasses , is Emma her lady-in-waiting Henriette van de Poll who served HM Queen Emma fore more than fifty years.
I just read a wonderful book about her and her service at the Dutch court, she wrote long letters about the court to her family. And their really interesting to read, she also writes about the marriage of Helen to Leopold and that at the same moment Emma’s other sister Marie of Wurttembourg was about to die.
But both the sisters stayed where the were, and at the final day of the wedding celebrations Marie died.
Henriette wrote the Queen hide her feelings very well, but she suffered horrible days knowing her beloved sister Marie was dieing. And back in the Netherlands their wasn’t more comfort waiting , William III didn’t wanted Emma to talk about death he could end stand it.
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