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...Copenhagen airport, junketing Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted by U.S. Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General...
...Dutch people took to him, as did their Queen. He became one of Wilhelmina's closest advisers and greatest favorites. Something of the playboy before the war, even taking a cocktail on Sundays, he settled down to a quiet, domestic postwar existence with Juliana at rambling, pleasant Soestdijk Palace. The household has the flavor of 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...
Born. To Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 37, and Prince Bernhard, 35: their fourth child, fourth daughter (the others: Beatrix, 9, Irene, 7, Margriet, 4); at Soestdijk Palace, The Netherlands. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz. Daughter's birth rated a 51-gun salute, a quarter-hour's pealing of church bells (a son-who would have been the first male heir to the throne in 62 years-would rate 101 guns, a half-hour's bell-ringing...
However divided on politics, all Hollanders unite in agreeing that the House of Orange is the incarnation of Dutch virtue and Queen Wilhelmina the finest sovereign any nation ever had. Last week planes were forbidden to fly over Soestdijk Palace and cars and bicycles passed it slowly and quietly, for there Crown Princess Juliana was waiting for her second baby. At 7 one morning 51 guns announced the birth of a second daughter. The nation was sorry that it was not a male heir, but healthy Princess Juliana has said that she is going to have a dozen children...
...Crown Princess' rejoicing came former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany this week, to take tea with Her Royal Highness and her husband at Soestdijk. Besides a large bunch of white and red roses the exile from Doorn brought visible assurance that his late rumored serious illness was exaggerated...