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Seldom had a Dutch television show drawn so large an audience. Before a nationwide hookup, Parliament was debating a bill approving the marriage of Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, to West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, 39. Ever since the engagement was announced last spring, Von Amsberg has been attacked bitterly because he served in Hitler's army...
...hardly speaking for Holland. Polls showed that 70% of Beatrix's future subjects favored the match, with 17% in the "couldn't care less" class...
...When Irene became engaged to Catholic Prince Hugo Carlos de Borbón y Parma, a dark horse pretender to the throne of hated Spain, Irene was forced by Parliament to renounce her claim to the Protestant Dutch monarchy. Last week the literary monthly De Gids suggested that Beatrix should do the same if she marries Von Amsberg, passing the succession to her next sister, Margriet, 22, who is engaged to a Dutch commoner...
...Other Prince. Thrifty Dutchmen also noted disapprovingly that Beatrix, the richest heiress on the Continent,* picked a fiance with no private fortune. Son of an impoverished Prussian Junker, Von Amsberg worked his way through the University of Hamburg and up through the German Foreign Service to an administrative post in Bonn. Known to fellow diplomats as a Streber (go-getter), he is fond of fast cars-though an aging Porsche is all he can afford on a $400-a-month government salary. Thus, in many ways he resembles the penniless German princeling and junior executive who married Juliana...
...Beatrix inherited $4,000,000 from her maternal grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, receives $83,000 a year in state salary (it will be doubled when she marries), will eventually inherit the rest of Wilhelmina's wealth, estimated at well over $100 million...