{"id":81935,"date":"2024-05-08T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=81935"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:09:01","slug":"watch-princess-margriet-of-the-netherlands-sent-us-this-lovely-video-message-for-the-civics-100th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/watch-princess-margriet-of-the-netherlands-sent-us-this-lovely-video-message-for-the-civics-100th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands sent us this lovely video message for the Civic\u2019s 100th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Around our campuses, tulips are starting to bloom. They aren\u2019t just a welcome pop of colour after a bleak winter. Tulips have a special meaning for the Civic Campus \u2014 and Ottawa as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why is Ottawa the tulip capital of North America? Well, the story began more than 80 years ago during the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the Nazi occupation of her country, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands accepted an invitation to come to Canada in 1940. And on January 19, 1943, she gave birth to seven-pound, 12-ounce Princess Margriet at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. To ensure the newborn princess would hold exclusively Dutch nationality, the Canadian government temporarily declared the room where she was born extraterritorial \u2014 outside Canadian jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the Civic coming up in the fall, Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands has sent us this lovely message of gratitude just in time for the Canadian Tulip Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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