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Why did Canada give one of the wards of the maternity hospital in Ottawa a status outside of Canadian jurisdiction?

During World War II, the Germans occupied the Netherlands and the royal family was evacuated to Canada. There, Crown Princess Juliana had a third daughter, Margriet. The chamber in the maternity hospital where the birth took place was declared outside Canadian jurisdiction by a special decree of the Canadian government. This was done so that Princess Margriet could claim the throne of the Netherlands in the future, because, having received someone else's citizenship at birth, she would have lost this right. In gratitude to the Canadians, after returning to their homeland, the Royal Family of the Netherlands sends thousands of tulip bulbs every year to Ottawa, where the annual Tulip Festival takes place. A similar incident took place in London in 1945: Winston Churchill proclaimed the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia the hotel room where the heir to the Serbian throne Alexander Karageorgievich was born, although he was no longer destined to become king.

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