Spiritualist. Greet Hofmans was a personal advisor for seven years to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. Living within the Palace Soestdijk , she claimed to be a paranormal healer. She was referred to as the "Dutch Rasputin." In 1948, she was brought to court by Queen Juliana's husband, Prince Bernhard, in hope of healing the eyes of their youngest child, Princess Christina. The Queen, while pregnant, had contracted German Measles or rubella, thus as a complication of this virus, Christina was born nearly blind. Besides being a healer, Hofmans became political, advising the Queen to remain neutral during the Cold War of the 1950s. Her advice split the Royal family into two camps; one supporting Hofmans' advice and the other against her advice. Some believed Hofmans as being spiritually gifted but others called her a charlatan or witch. With all the confusion concerning Hofmans, there was talk of a divorce between Queen Juliana and her husband. The incident was made international, when a German periodical published on an article June 3, 1956, "Between the Queen and Rasputin." This periodical was banded from the Netherlands. Not wanting to add fuel to the fire, the Dutch press did a self-censoring of the ordeal. There was an internal investigation of the situation as Hofmans' influence caused a great crisis in the Dutch monarchy. Against her wishes, Hofmans left the Dutch royal court in 1956. The Queen addressed the sad leaving of her friend in the next Christmas message to the nation. Born the oldest of four children, she went from being a servant to being her mother's caregiver until her mother died in 1929. She was 43 when she started living on her own. She was a free-thinker joining the Theosophical Society. She first realized her gift when she claimed to healed a young boy with tuberculosis. For a time, she became a follower of a man named M. Exler to the point of making a pilgrimage to his hometown after his death, wanting to follow his footsteps and spread his teachings of one world religion. Upon claiming to have healed hundreds, she moved up the social ladder living in the homes of nobles. From there she advanced to the Royal family. Upon being asked to leave the court, she continued to practice as a faith healer but not on such a grand scale. After receiving a skull fracture from a serious car crash, her healings were not offered as often. Never marrying, she died in 1968 of cancer after refusing any conventional treatments.