Word: biesterfeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major ripple on the placid surface of Queen Wilhelmina's personal life of late has been the acquisition of a son-in-law in Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, whose line has not enjoyed temporal sovereignty in the hilly little Principality of Lippe-Detmold since 1849. Nobody in The Netherlands had ever heard of the Prince before his engagement to Juliana was announced, but all knew that he must fit the proper specifications of a Prince Consort. He must be of royal blood, a Protestant, of flawless character, in perfect health. He was all that, but he also proved...
Once they glimpsed King Leopold pacing up & down inside, gesticulating while he talked. Later they saw Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Princess Juliana and a member of the Dutch Army General Staff, dash out of the Palace's single entrance, get into a car and leave. At 1:30 a.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens left. Gradually the Palace lights went...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...
Motoring in his Ford roadster over wet roads from Soestdyk Palace to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, fast-driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...page so as to gain greatest possible circulation credit. Top story on the printed rating list, which is consulted when all players have "gone to press," is the abdication of Edward VIII: 1,000,000 credits. Bottom story is Hitler's farewell to Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld departing from Germany to marry Holland's Crown Princess : 0 credits. Penalties are exacted for using libelous material; "rewrites" of "scoops" in papers already gone to press; pressagent commercial blurbs. Posing publicly as players of the game to help its sale when presented last week at $2.34 by Manhattan...