Today marks the 76th anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina arriving in the United Kingdom to take charge of the Dutch Government in Exile.

Initially I wanted to do a piece on that event but rather then focusing on the Queen, I decided to focus on Adjudant to the Queen,Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema.

Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzemar (3 April 1917 – 26 September 2007) was a Dutch wartime RAF-pilot, Dutch spy and writer

In the Netherlands he became famous as the writer of the 1970 book Soldaat van Oranje(Dutch:Soldier of Orange, also know as Survival Run) in which he describes his experiences in World War II, and which was made into a 1977 film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer.