Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and her consort, Prince Bernhard, last week watched their daughter, Princess Irene, get married. But they watched from a distance of 800 miles and over television in a room at Warmelo palace, near Amsterdam...
...somewhat uncertain and muddled Queen, always late for appointments because she gets too involved in whatever she is doing. In the 1950s, she fell under the influence of a faith healer named Greet Hofmans. Juliana had long felt a personal guilt for the near blindness of her youngest daughter, Christina, an affliction probably caused by an attack of measles during the Queen's pregnancy. Hofmans claimed she could cure Christina, and Juliana soon depended on her for spiritual and political advice as well. It was Prince Bernhard who got rid of the faith healer. While Dutch papers remained loyally...
...sight was heard throughout the country on TV. Her only apparent major problem is getting married. The government would dearly like to break the habit of finding royal consorts among the Protestant German aristocracy. But suitable Protestant princes, German or otherwise, are hard to find nowadays. The remaining daughter, pretty, 21-year-old Princess Margriet, shares her mother's stoutness, and her hairdos have a lamentable tendency to come down about her ears...
...convertible so that the crowds could get a better look. Later, on TV, she told the nation a little unconvincingly that her roles as Queen and mother had never clashed in the matter of Irene's wedding. She thanked her subjects for "the love you have shown our daughter Irene, whom we love so much. Difficulties often make us realize how much we love someone, and we know that you hope with us that our daughter will find true happiness...
...home and abroad. Bavaria's Ina Balke and Rhinelander Dagmar Dreger are among Manhattan's highest-paid models. German mannequins are in equally great demand in Paris; most of them came to France originally as domestic servants, although one of the most noted, Brigitte Laaf, is the daughter of a wealthy Cologne businessman...