Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Royal House of Orange has held sway in The Netherlands almost without interruption for 400 years, and according to the constitution, its monarch is "inviolable." Most of Queen Juliana's royal subjects hoped that the same was true of her dapper, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, 65. When rumors from the Lockheed bribetaking scandals began to gather around Bernhard's royal head last February, the majority of the Dutch public preferred to consider their esteemed merchant prince innocent, at least until proved guilty. Last week, however, the prince was forced to resign from virtually all his public...
Harsh Conclusion. The three-man commission of "wise men," which spent six months investigating allegations that the prince had accepted bribes totaling $1.1 million, said there was no firm evidence that Bernhard had actually received the money. But, the commission harshly concluded, Bernhard had "shown himself open to dishonorable requests and offers," and "allowed himself to be tempted to take initiatives that were completely unacceptable...
...abandon some 300 other official roles, which range from chairman of the World Wildlife Fund to adviser for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. In a televised speech to a tense and packed meeting of Parliament, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl said that no legal action would be taken against Prince Bernhard because of possible "serious consequences" to Queen Juliana, who married the prince in 1937. Although there had been speculation that the Queen might abdicate if Prince Bernhard's name were not entirely cleared, Juliana seemed intent last week on remaining head of the House of Orange...
Initially, the Dutch were less than enthusiastic about the marriage of their princess to Bernhard in 1937. A member of an obscure German princely family, he had served briefly in the Hitler Youth Movement. However, he won the respect of the Dutch in World War II, when he got his fighter pilot's wings with the R.A.F. and later returned in triumph to The Netherlands as head of the free Dutch forces and the resistance movement...
...past three decades, while the Queen usually stayed home in their rambling Soestdijk mansion, the prince, now 64, has served as supersalesman for Dutch goods abroad. The royal couple seem happily matched. "My wife is head of state," Bernhard explains. "I am boss in the house...