Princess Margriet glad not to be queen

Princess Margriet, who celebrates here 65th birthday on Saturday, could not not think of anything worse than being queen like her sister Beatrix, she tells a tv documentary to be broadcast on Friday evening.


The documentary includes black and white footage from the Polygoon cinema news reel about her birth in Canada where the royal family was in exile during the Second World War.

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