Our old queen in The Netherlands is very ill.
She`s not a queen anymore so they call her princess now, princess Juliana.
She`s 94 years old and she has pneumonia. They`re afraid she`s going to die.
Juliana was our queen from 1948 till 1980. She`s the mother of Beatrix, who`s our queen now,
and grandmother of Willem-Alexander, who will be our king soon.
We haven`t seen Juliana in at least five years. They`ve been hiding her in the royal palace
in Soestdijk because -as they say- she has `loss of memory`.
The last time she was on television she said some real funny things
and she gave the camera strange looks... She was always a bit different, even odd.
But the Dutch humans have always liked her.
Her birthday (April 30) is still our `National Queens Day`. She was a good queen.
I`m going to keep my paws crossed for her today.
Update: princess Juliana died in her sleep Saturday morning.