Discovery sheds new light on Greet Hofmans affair: ‘She has done what Prince Bernhard should have done’

When in 1956 the notorious ‘Hofmans-affair’ shook the Dutch royal family to his foundations, Greet Hofmans was portrayed as a mystical intrigant. She would have had a Rasputin-like influence on Queen Juliana and the Court of Appeal in crisis. But how is that image right? In his new biography, historian Han van Bree sheds the cloudy eye new light on Hofmans, her relationship with the royal family and the dynamics behind the scenes of a historically loaded period.

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