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...modern monarchies are closer to the people they democratically monarch than The Netherlands' House of Orange, and last week new Queen Beatrix, 42, and her family demonstrated why. Her coronation in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk as successor to her mother. Queen Juliana, 71, who was abdicating after 32 years, was a blaze of pageantry and color. But a block away from the monarchist crowds, in a city lately famous for noisy dissidents, clamored a raucous group protesting not only the coronation but also the country's tight housing policies. Did the royals realize that the dissenters were...
...nonsense style that had endeared her to her subjects throughout a 31-year reign, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told a national television audience that she would abdicate on her 71st birthday this April 30. The occasion for the surprise announcement: the 42nd birthday last week of Crown Princess Beatrix, who will succeed her mother on the throne...
...help she had sought to cure her semiblind youngest daughter, Maria 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...
...they saw. Animals became part of the great chain of being and illustrators freshened their efforts to give birds and mammals moral characteristics. Perhaps the best and, ironically, the most obscure was Ernest Griset, whose influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy can be seen in the antic portraits of hogs and frogs and owls. The result is a rare pictorial biograph that...
While Shinnecock was hosting the championship in 1896, one of its members, 17-year-old Beatrix Hoyt, was competing in her first U.S. Women's Championship. Hoyt, the granddaughter of Salmon P. Chase, who was Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, won the title three straight times and then "retired" from competition at the age of 20. She never married and became a landscape painter and sculptor of animals...