Netherlands:
She Was 20. He Was 61. The Marriage That Shocked Europe
Framed by History | 22 Aug. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzkhwyKtSg
Emma relocated to the palace on Lange Voorhout in the Hague, retaining only the modest title of Queen Mother. Yet her battle was not over. She merely turned her attention to a new adversary. Emma channeled her formidable energy and personal wealth into combating tuberculosis, the disease that had claimed her sister, and was devastating thousands of workingclass families.
Heaven, and Lourdes, Mary:
Jeanne Fretel
Visited Lourdes: 10 May 1948.
Age 31, a student nurse from Rennes, France. Tubercular peritonitis with complications for seven years, extreme emaciation and oscillating fever. Comatose when brought to Lourdes, was given a tiny fragment of the Eucharist and awoke. Reported being "instantly and permanently cured" later that night while lying in her wheelchair beside the spring. She had not yet bathed in or drunk the water. Her cure was recognised officially on 11 November 1950.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Medical_Bureau
Emma, Queen Mother of the Netherlands disposed of a good fortune, but before antibiotics, all her fund could not heal tuberculose peritonitis.
Mary, Queen Mother of Heaven, disposes of the filial respect of God. He could./HGL
