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Born. To Crown Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, 29, and Prince Claus, formerly Claus von Amsberg, 40, onetime West German diplomat: their first child, a son, thus presenting the 400-year-old House of Orange-Nassau with its first male heir in 111 years; in Utrecht, The Netherlands...
Once upon a time there was a shy little girl and her name was Beatrix. She lived with her Papa and her Mama and her brother Bertram in a grand house at No. 2 Bolton Gardens, Kensington, London, England. Beatrix was not permitted to have any friends, but she did have a dog, a doll, a pet rabbit, a governess, and her own dear little nursery room with strong shiny bars over the windows...
...have circled the world, but there are Peter Rabbits in many languages from Latin to Welsh, and the book still sells 40,000 copies annually in the U.S. Now, to mark the centenary of the author's birth, her English publishers have issued the massive private Journal that Beatrix kept from 1881, when she was 15, until...
Jehovah in Granite. Unexpectedly unearthed in 1952, nine years after her death, the manuscript was written in a secret cipher that bright little Beatrix devised herself. The cipher took six years to crack, but Potterites fearful of unsettling revelations in the Journal can relax. What it contains is an always dutiful, occasionally delightful collection of anecdote, travelogue, history and plain gossip. What it shows, in text and illustration, is how Beatrix, bored and desperate in a self-imposed isolation, beat at the bars of her confinement with nothing more than a quill pen and a palette of paints...
...Papa Potter, who looked like a Jehovah chiseled in granite, had inherited so much money that he never bothered to practice law, spent his days at his club. Mama Potter, who looked like Queen Victoria, discouraged overnight visitors by keeping her spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that...