Wilhelmina white plaque


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# 23 Hyde Park Place, W2 During the darkest days of the Second World War, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands transformed this elegant townhouse into Oranjehaven—a sanctuary for her displaced countrymen who had fled Nazi occupation to fight alongside the Allies. From 1942 onwards, Dutch servicemen ...
Location
23 Hyde Park Place, W2
Inscription
Oranjehaven this building served as a club endowed in 1942 by Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands for dutchmen having escaped from their occupied country to join the Allied Forces