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Oranje-Bode, first issue, 1943: birth of Princess Margriet
Single printed sheet in orange ink headed 'Oranje-Bode' for the birth of Princess Margriet Francisca, with two portrait photographs set into a drawn tree trunk and a short verse. Tells: the colour orange, the tree of the House of Orange and the verse's 'Holland blooms again' tie the exiled dynasty's family event to hope for the end of the occupation.
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Oranje-Bode, clandestine Dutch resistance sheet (the first issue of what became the newspaper Trouw)
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Leader
- Arthur Seyss Inquart
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan cited to illegaletrouw.nl), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD-anon-70-EU: anonymous 1943 clandestine sheet)
Oranje-Bode, 1943; scan via illegaletrouw.nl and Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
ORANJE-BODE ter gelegenheid van de geboorte van H.K.H. Prinses Margriet Francisca HOLLAND GROEIT WEER ! HOLLAND BLOEIT WIJER ! Ja, zij zullen Zich vervullen, Deze tijden van geluk! Dees ellenden Gaan volenden; En, verpletterd wordt het juk.
ORANGE-HERALD on the occasion of the birth of H.R.H. Princess Margriet Francisca HOLLAND GROWS AGAIN! HOLLAND BLOOMS WIDER! Yes, they shall Be fulfilled, These times of happiness! These miseries Will come to an end; And the yoke will be crushed.
All printed text is on the page and clearly legible; 'WiJER' in the second slogan is printed with a lower-case i. Dutch read by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
