Word: amsberg
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...Christina. Another shock came in 1964; although the House of Orange has been staunchly Protestant for 400 years, Daughter Irene converted to Catholicism in order to marry Carlos Hugo, an exiled Spanish prince. Two years later, Crown Princess Beatrix caused a public outcry by marrying German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, who had served in the army of the Third Reich and had been a member of Hitler Youth. The bitterest blow of Juliana's reign was the public disgrace of her husband Prince Bernhard, whose role in the Lockheed bribery scandal was exposed in 1976. Like other crises...