Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Even in her own royal residence on the outskirts of The Hague, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is supposed to obey the rule of her august mother Queen Wilhelmina: "Unmarried ladies of the Court shall not smoke...
Buxom Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria last week personally read her Speech-from-the-Throne at the opening of the Netherlands Parliament. Not only Queen Wilhelmina, but indomitable Queen Mother Emma, portly Prince Henry (Wilhelmina's spouse) and plump Princess Juliana, heiress to the throne, were there, almost 700 Ib. of Royal Dutch...
...Geer sheepishly reported that for the first time in seven years the Dutch budget is out of balance, shows a small deficit of $3,615,300. This in part the Government proposes to make up by "increasing the liquor excise" and "economizing." Two days after good Queen Wilhelmina failed to name a fiance, the Swedish press heard that the name is "Sigvard"-i. e. Prince Sigvard Oscar Frederick, Duke of Uppland, second son of Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf by his first wife, the late Princess Margaret Victoria, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. This potent rumor neither the Swedish...
...When Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, appears at an aquatic function, such as the opening of the giant Ymuiden lock of the North Sea Canal (TIME, May 12), she is greeted by "Houzee! Houzee!" contraction for the Dutch naval cheer "Houdt de Zee!" ("Hold...
Engaged. Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklem-bourg, 21; to Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred of Erbach-Schoenberg, Prince of Michelstadt and of Odenwald, Hessen, Germany, 26; with the consent of the Cabinet of the Dutch Government...