Funeral of Dutch Queen Mother

(30 Mar 2004) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of royal crypt
2. Horse-drawn hearse arriving
3. Soldiers in dress uniform marching and pull out to procession
4. Wide of foreign dignitaries arriving
5. Midshot of foreign dignitaries including former Queen Noor of Jordan with white headscarf
6. Queen Margrethe of Denmark and Spanish King Juan Carlos followed by Queen Sylvia and King Gustav of Sweden, Belgian King Albert with Queen Paola
7. Wide of arrivals
8. Grandchildren and partners of Juliana
9. Canal
10. Bells ringing
11. Members of public lining canal
12. Hearse with members of public
13. Highshot procession
14. Hearse arriving at main square in front of Nieuwe Kerk, New Church
15. Daughters of Juliana exiting horse-drawn carriage, Princess Irene, Queen Beatrix
16. Princess Irene
17. Queen Beatrix helping princess Christina out of carriage followed by Princess Margriet exiting
18. Juliana''s daughters: Margriet, Christina, Beatrix, Irene
19. Daughters walk towards church
20. Interiors church
21. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende with glasses, seated second from left
22. Congregation
23. Highshot hearse
24. Various of coffin being carried into church
25. Juliana''s daughters entering with father, Prince Bernhard
26. Highshot interiors church with coffin being brought in
27. Coffin being carried
28. Wreath of flowers being carried in with Prince Bernhard and daughters in background
29. Grandchildren lighting candle including Queen Beatrix''s sons, Crown Prince Willem Alexander with red hair
30. Midshot grandchildren lighting candle
31. Various VIPs including Britain''s Prince Phillip, Queen Paola and King Albert, Queen Sylvia, King Gustav and Queen Margrethe
32. Prince Phillip with Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko of Japan behind him and behind them, Prince Albert of Monaco
33. Queen Beatrix, Prince Bernhard, Princess Irene
34. King Gustav, Queen Margrethe, King Juan Carlos and former Queen Noor in row behind
35. Coffin being carried into crypt
36. Daughters and Prince Bernhard
37. Crypt
38. Queen Beatrix and Princess Irene and father following coffin, followed by Princess Margriet, Prince Pieter, Margriet''s husband, and Princess Christina
39. Interiors church

STORYLINE

The Netherlands on Tuesday bid farewell to former queen Juliana, burying her with the royal honours that she shunned in her lifetime.

Bells pealed across the nation when her coffin emerged through the colonnaded door of the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and was placed in a horse-drawn hearse while a military band played the national anthem.

Opaque white screens were lowered over the open sides, lending an air of dignified solitude to her final journey.

The 19th century hearse, covered in purple with white plumes on the corners and a golden crown in the centre of the roof, wound through the
cobbled streets of The Hague toward the Nieuwe Kerk, or New Church, in Delft, 13 kilometers (eight miles) away.

From schoolchildren to elderly people of Juliana''s generation, thousands of citizens watched from behind an honour guard of nine thousand military men lining the route as the hearse rolled by.

It was followed by a carriage carrying the eldest sons of Queen Beatrix and her three sisters.

Beatrix and her sisters, all dressed in white, traveled separately by limousine to join the procession for the final few hundred metres (yards) to the church.

Grieved by a nation grateful for her leadership during the difficult postwar years of recovery and social change, Juliana was laid to rest in the vault next to her parents, Queen Welhelmina and Prince Hendrik.








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