Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 (1880-1962)
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She ruled the Netherlands for 58 years — longer than any Dutch monarch — and became the world's first female billionaire through her business dealings. When the Nazis invaded in 1940, she fled to London and turned herself into a radio voice of resistance that made her more powerful in exile than she'd ever been at home.
The only surviving child of King William III, Wilhelmina took the throne at ten in 1890 after her father's death, spending her first years under her mother's regency. She steered the Netherlands through neutrality in World War I and worked through the country's industrial troubles, earning broad popularity while building a fortune that made her the first woman to reach billionaire status in U.S. dollars. The German invasion in May 1940 sent her to Britain, where she set up a government-in-exile and broadcast regularly to occupied Holland, becoming the voice and symbol of Dutch resistance. She…
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to one of which I am attached by bonds of friendship, to other by ties of common origin
I have done more for the Boers than my fellow countrymen will ever know
only in the intimacy with mother I could be just a human
the government did not fulfil the urge in their hearts and felt that the public wished to see me openly revealing my sympathy for our kinsmen; how could I as the head of state!
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