Word: biesterfelds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flavor of Greenwich. When Juliana was 26, she met Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, a charming young man-about-Europe who worked for I. G. Farben in Paris. Declared Wilhelmina: "This is not the marriage of The Netherlands to Germany [but] the marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy of her love." The story goes that when a German diplomat suggested how sensible it would be if The Netherlands indeed joined Germany, Juliana remarked: "Oh, I think Mama is too old to rule such a large country as Germany...
Juliana had better marital luck than her mother. Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was another German princeling, and vaguely suspected of Nazi sympathies to boot. But his record of intense loyalty to his Queen and adopted country during the war has made Prince Bernhard the most popular man in Holland today. In the last year of the war, he served as head of the Dutch resistance movement, later organized relief of stricken areas...
Castles & Eagle's Nest. Near Driburg, U.S. soldiers came upon portly Princess Armgard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, widowed mother of Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, living peacefully in a palace. The Army set up an accommodating "off limits" sign, left her undisturbed...
Christened. Princess Irene Emma Elizabeth, youngest (ten months) daughter of The Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld; before a distinguished audience of British and Netherlands royalty, including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (godmother) ; in Buckingham Palace, London...
Rumored Expecting. Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, who, since her marriage in 1937, has presented her husband, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, with two chubby daughters: a third child; in August or September...