I believe that Mienthe Boellaard lived in Amsterdam Buitenverldert. She was the designated lady-in-waiting for events in and around Amsterdam. Her husband used to be CEO of Lucas Bols, before it was taken over by the Van Doorne family of DAF.
Interesting that they preferred Amsterdam-Buitenveldert above a beautiful tatched roofed monumental villa in lush green surroundings. Maybe the Boellaard-Stheemann family associated the villa with the all omnipresent
Pater Familias, with whom both son Willem and especially daughter-in-law Mienthe had a difficult relationship. I can imagine one does not want to live in a house with not so happy associations.
For Willem "Pim" Boellaard it was Prince Bernhard before and Prince Bernhard after. The book tells how the Prince's influence enabled him to help people imprisoned in the concentration camps of Natzweiler and Dachau. When the camps were liberated, to Boellaard's frustration the Dutch Government was useless when it came to the problem of logistics: how to get all those back to the fatherland? He bumped his head against concrete walls of bureaucracy. Via-via he came in contact with Prince Bernhard, and to his amazement "with a fingerclick" the Prince had a whole fleet of trucks and even trains arranged by the Allied Powers, to bring the people from Natzweiler and Dachau back.
In 1976 the loyalty of Willem "Pim" Boellaard was seriously hit by the Lockheed Scandal. Especially because the Prince assured him that it really was "pure nonsens". He also was critical about the "too activist" Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus.
Of course he was happy when his daughter-in-law Maria Julie "Mienthe" Boellaard-Stheemann became
Hofdame of Queen Beatrix. It was another confirmation of the family's standing. But the distance of the Queen towards her "Pappie" was extended to her
Hofdames. That his own daughter-in-law was less than impressed about his absolute hero Prince Bernhard was a factor in the difficult relationship. For an example: when Mr Boellaard told the Prince has called him for his birthday, or he enjoyed a sherry at Soestdijk Palace, or he was invited at the Crown Domain Het Loo for a weekend, Mienthe Boellaard barely could hide her disapproval, which caused heated situations at the dinner table in the villa, with his wife Anna-Louisa Baroness van Heeckeren and his son Willem trying to hush the tensions away.
Pim Boellaard thought people had
no idea. There were prisoners starving. There were prisoners dying. They were in despair. There were prisoners in utterly vulnerable conditions, wandering in concentration camps. And their Government was too occupied to do anything. But the Prince did.
He was the only one who came into action.
He was the only one who kept interest in rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners-of-war and of victims of the concentration camps.
Anyway, most interesting that inside one family, with father Boellaard in the Bernhard camp and daughter-in-law Boellaard in the Beatrix camp, the division inside the royal family was extended.