Word: detmold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major ripple on the placid surface of Queen Wilhelmina's personal life of late has been the acquisition of a son-in-law in Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, whose line has not enjoyed temporal sovereignty in the hilly little Principality of Lippe-Detmold since 1849. Nobody in The Netherlands had ever heard of the Prince before his engagement to Juliana was announced, but all knew that he must fit the proper specifications of a Prince Consort. He must be of royal blood, a Protestant, of flawless character, in perfect health. He was all that, but he also proved...
...years has there been a male heir to the Dutch Crown. Should Prince Consort Bernhard ("Benno") prove to have sired a manchild, Netherlanders will be wild with joy. Meanwhile the impecunious German princely family of Prince Consort Benno, the ancient House of Lippe-Detmold, are having some of their debts discreetly taken care of. It was learned that hawk-nosed Netherlands Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn recently made a quiet visit to Lippe-Detmold in Germany, made creditors happy to the tune of some...
Reason: Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld was rumored to want played at his wedding the song of his native Lippe-Biesterfeld, a rustic German ditty with the hearty chorus: "Lippe-Detmold is a wonderful town, boom, boom, BOOM!" According to the Nazis, the Prince ought to have "demanded" that the Nazi Horst Wessel song or at the very least Deutschland Über Alles should boom at his wedding-particularly since Lippe-Biesterfeld was abolished as a principality by the German Republic. While the whole German press roared its wrath, the Nazi Political Police rushed around to the homes of three...