Word: beatrix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greenwich, Conn. The Lippe-Biesterfelds like bridge, talky dinner parties, go to bed by 11. Each time Juliana expected a child, the nation waited excitedly to hear whether it was a boy (though by now, the Dutch have got used to matriarchy). Four times it was a girl (Beatrix, now 10; Irene, 9; Margriet Francisca, 5; Maria Christina...
Juliana insisted that her daughters attend a public school, once instructed the headmistress not to "tell stories about fairy princesses or any stuff like that." The children have the Orange matter-of-factness. Recently, vacationing, Princess Beatrix grew impatient with a crowd of gaping local children. She presented herself on the porch of her parents' house. "This is how I look in front," she said, and turned. "This is how I look in back. Now go away and leave me alone...
Listening to the Queen's weary voice, Dutch oldsters could remember her ascent to the throne as a girl of 18. They remembered the rejoicing and feasting at her marriage with Henry Wladimir, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1901; the birth of Juliana in 1909 and that of Beatrix (oldest daughter of Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard) in 1938. Most vividly, they remembered Wilhelmina's radio broadcasts from London during the Nazi occupation, when she heartened the underground: "The Netherlands will rise again...
...confused with Beatrix (Peter Rabbit) Potter...
...Their failures simply go out of print and are mercifully forgotten. Most of the remembered artists, and a few of the failures, are crammed into Illustrators of Children's Books (Horn Book Inc.; $15), a newly published, 527-page history of art for children. A few favorites, like Beatrix Potter and Ernest Shepard (who illustrated Milne's Pooh books), are represented by just one drawing each...