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Royal Family Commemorates Deceased Prince Claus on His 100th Birthday
Prince Claus was commemorated in Hitzacker, Germany, on 2026-09-06, attended by Princess Beatrix, King Willem-Alexander, and Prince Constantijn. Claus, Beatrix's husband, died in 2002 and would have turned 100 today. The family visited a monument and the Prinz-Claus-Promenade. King Willem-Alexander watered the 'royal linden,' planted in 2013. Claus's past in the Hitler Youth and Wehrmacht sparked protests before his 1966 marriage to Beatrix, but historian Loe de Jong found no war crimes. Claus died of Parkinson's and pneumonia.
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