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Dutch Princess Returns to Ottawa, Where She Was Born During Second World War

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Dutch Princess Returns to Ottawa, Where She Was Born During Second World War
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands plants tulips with her husband Pieter van Vollenhoven, second from left, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Canada Ines Coppoolse, left, and National Capital Commission CEO Tobi Nussbaum, right, at Stornoway in Ottawa, May 12, 2022. The Canadian Press/David Kawai
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Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is today visiting Ottawa, the city where she was born during the Second World War.

The princess was born at Ottawa’s civic hospital after the Dutch royal family fled to Canada to escape Nazi occupying forces in 1940.

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