Word: frederika
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Cause of the trouble was the long-expected, long-disputed state visit to Britain by Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika. Fearing precisely the kind of left-wing demonstrations that occurred last week, Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis advised against the trip, resigned when the royal couple refused to bow to pressure and decided to go anyway. British political critics base their case against the King and Queen largely on the fact that Greek jails still contain about 1,000 prisoners seized more than a decade ago during the civil war; most are believed to be Communist...
...Woolly. Next day, Greek Premier Panayotis Pipinelis, who accompanied the King and Queen, granted Mrs. Ambatielos a 45-minute hearing, whereupon she calmed down. Back in Greece, 19 of the prisoners (not including Ambatielos) were freed. At week's end the royal couple quietly returned to Greece. Said Frederika before she left: "The decision to come to Brit ain for a state visit was the right one, absolutely right. I am not worried about these few people who demonstrated. The memory I have is of the warm reception we were given on our arrival...
...Born Princess of Hanover, Frederika is a granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (and a great-great-granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, which also makes her a British princess and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth). When Frederika was a year old, her family moved from Germany to Austria, where she spent most of her childhood. As a girl, she supposedly belonged to a Hitlerite youth group. In school in Italy during her late teens, at a time when three of her brothers served in the Wehrmacht, she was heard to defend Nazi Germany. That is about the only...
Communists and well-meaning liberals outside Greece, particularly in Britain, this year started a concerted campaign against the Karamanlis regime, and against the royal family-notably Queen Frederika, who was accused of Nazi connections. Bertrand Russell's ban-the-bombers joined the fray, and last April, when Frederika was in London for the wedding of her third cousin Princess Alexandra, she was set upon by a crowd of demonstrators and forced to seek refuge in a private house. Britain's anti-Greek chorus was swelled by Lord Beaverbrook, who, for reasons of his own, scurrilously attacked...
...plaintive rejoinder was that he had accepted the invitation long ago and it would be ungentlemanly to back out now. The British had promised adequate security. Besides, he did not want to appear to give in to pressure from the left. King Paul was reinforced by pert Queen Frederika who, like her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, strongly feels that she knows better than her ministers what is good for her country...