Word: astrid
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...hours ticked toward midnight two crises neared. A knock at the door might mean either a trained nurse or a political secretary, bursting with news. Queen Astrid was in labor and highly excited was His Majesty's Swedish mother-in-law. So too were all the Cabinet Ministers. Disruption threatened the Cabinet of Premier Count Charles de Broqueville, a delicate coalition formed year and a half ago under the mighty shield of the late King Albert's personal prestige. Thrice before his death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father...
...robed royal obstetrician produced a fine, pink 7 Ib. Prince. Not a Crown Prince, for Their Majesties already had a three-year-old-son, slim little Baudoin who embarrassed his parents while the King was being sworn in by slipping off his big arm chair and climbing into Queen Astrid's lap (TIME, March...
Born, To Queen Astrid of the Belgians and King Leopold III; a second son, Albert; in Laeken...
...hard practical schooling. He has served in the Belgian Senate. He has specialized in the study of Colonial administration. He likes to monkey with engines; he drives his own car. But his hobbies are safer: trout fishing and collecting butterflies. In 1926 he married dark-haired Princess Astrid of Sweden after a courtship that set lady-novelists' hearts aflutter. In order not to attract attention Prince Leopold paid flying visits to Sweden in a third class railway coach, carrying his own bags. People thought he was a new butler. Announcing the engagement, beaming King Albert said...
Brussels housewives still remember how Princess Astrid pushed her own baby carriage up & down the shady Avenue Louise after her little Daughter Charlotte was born...