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...whisk them from Europe to the Mexican border-a press-dodging ruse for which they paid the U.S. $2 more than two first-class commercial fares. Then, after eight days' honeymoon-hiding from reporters, The Netherlands' Crown Princess Beatrix, 28, and her German bridegroom, Clous von Amsberg, 39, were at last chased down by a crowd of photographers as they arrived on the little Mexican island of Cozumel. The royal couple promptly went into seclusion again at the villa of former Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos...
...guests through town for a little prenuptial sightseeing at the Rijkmuseum and the city's famed diamond-cutting centers. Europe's wealthiest reigning family, the 400-year-old House of Orange, was about to marry apple-cheeked Crown Princess Beatrix, 28, to West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg...
Some of the preparations, of course, had a slightly nervous tinge about them. Ever since the engagement was announced last spring, a small but angry Dutch minority had denounced the match because Von Amsberg had served, at the age of 16, in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Half of Amsterdam's 45 city councilors refused to attend the wedding, as did the rabbis of three leading synagogues. But what really had the cops in a swivet was a bunch of high-spirited university students, who called themselves the Provos (meaning provokers). They came out emphatically against the monarchy, Germans, capitalism...
Married. Crown Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, 28, oldest of Queen Juliana's four daughters and heir to the throne; and Claus von Amsberg, 39, former West German diplomat; in Amsterdam (see THE WORLD...
...months she's been smiling prettily through in public, trying to sell the Dutch people on her engagement to German Commoner Claus von Amsberg. What The Netherlands' Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, says in private sounds a bit different. That's how Liesbeth Lobensteijn, 16, a Hague high school student, told it after she and a group of fellow students paid a visit on the princess. As Liesbeth reported in her school paper: "One of us said, 'Of course you always managed to keep that unbeatable smile,' but the princess answered with a gesture like...