Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half a million Dutch turned out in The Hague for the annual opening of the States General last week when they heard the rumor that Prince "Benno." the German fiance of Crown Princess Juliana, would probably be riding in the royal coach...
...Madrid as King should the White armies win Spain's present civil war (see p. 20). Last week Her Majesty, traveling as "the Duchess of Toledo," arrived on the tragic errand of rushing to the bedside of her eldest son Alfonso. He renounced his rights as Spanish Crown Prince to marry a rich Cuban commoner (TIME, July 3, 1933), is now the Count of Covadonga, and as his mother landed he had just undergone the eleventh of a series of blood transfusions at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...love him!" broadcast Crown Princess Juliana to her future subjects. "Thank you for your congratulations and your homage. We are very happy. We have known each other more than a year. We first met during the winter sports [in Germany] and afterwards several times in Holland. We came to be on very good terms. These present hours wherein we've been shown so much kindness are the finest of our mutual life...
Between now and the date of the Crown Princess' marriage, probably in December, Juliana, 27, and Benno, 25, will busy themselves completing an economic study of The Netherlands on which they have been working in recent months. In the best sense of the term, Prince Bernhard is a first generation "mama's boy" and Crown Princess Juliana is a second generation "mama's girl," her mother Queen Wilhelmina having been reared and dominated by the late autocratic Queen Emma of The Netherlands (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Normal court usage would have been for the Crown Princess...
Generally in The Netherlands last week the Crown Princess' choice came as a complete surprise almost completely popular. Only Dutch Socialist papers such as Het Volk grumbled that Benno is a German and Germany is now the spearhead of anti-Socialist forces. However, likeable Benno served most of his apprenticeship to the German Dye Trust in its Paris office, speaks French even better than he speaks Dutch, and would be able from experience to show buxom Juliana a good time in Paris swank spots...