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...moved closer to resolution. Juliana accepted with overflowing gratitude "for services rendered" the resignations of her private secretary, Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, and his buddy, the Queen's chamberlain, Johann van Maasdick. Significance of the quittings: the baron's family first introduced the Queen to Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25), whose metaphysical grip on Juliana led to the crisis...
...they read reports issuing from the National News Agency that the Queen had "promised' to do all in her own power to reach a reconciliation with her husband (TIME, Sept. 3). Juliana, it was said, had not only agreed to see no more of Greet Hofmans, the faith healer whose influence had driven a wedge -between the Queen and Prince Bernhard, but planned to eliminate Hofmans supporters from the royal household...
...matters were not so neatly settled. Reading the printed reports, she seethed. Since when did a Queen of the House of Orange have to promise anything to her confidential advisers? Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group. The only change made in the royal household was a minor one planned before the "three wise men" were called in for help. Meanwhile, the nation itself was in the midst of a Cabinet crisis whose solution was made virtually impossible because of the worsening...
...Palace. They were told that 47-year-old Juliana and her 45-year-old German prince were determined to work things out together. A government spokesman made it clear that "the Queen has decided to entertain no more relations either direct or indirect with Miss [Greet] Hofmans," the faith healer whose influence over Queen Juliana caused a royal rift (TIME, June 25). Nor would Juliana attend any more religious conferences at ex-Queen Wilhelmina's country palace, Het Loo, where Greet Hofmans held sway over a religious-minded group of peace enthusiasts...
...three distinguished royal advisers acknowledged that some changes in the royal palace were "possible." Presumably on their way out were Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, the Queen's private secretary, and his mother, grand mistress at court. Both friends of the faith healer, they won ascendancy at court (to the distress of Bernhard's friends and of many Dutch politicos) after the faith healer moved into the palace, hoping to effect a cure by prayer on nine-year-old Princess Marijke, who was born nearly blind...