Word: francisca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like bridge, talky dinner parties, go to bed by 11. Each time Juliana expected a child, the nation waited excitedly to hear whether it was a boy (though by now, the Dutch have got used to matriarchy). Four times it was a girl (Beatrix, now 10; Irene, 9; Margriet Francisca, 5; Maria Christina...
...story, such as it is, is concerned with Pirate Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid), an ex-Dutch sea captain, fat, dastardly Spanish Governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and aristocratic Francisca (Maureen O'Hara). There is all sorts of high-spirited romancing, pirate treachery, Iberian cruelty and slashing sword play before Van Horn and Francisca finally sail away together into an almost overpoweringly golden sunrise...
Queen Wilhelmina, 62, made her third transatlantic air hop, joined Princess Juliana in Ottawa, planned to stay awhile and get acquainted with four-month-old Margriet Francisca, her new granddaughter...
Doing fine in a not-so-grand Ottawa house, a handy two blocks from nursery school, was the all-girl family of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Princess Beatrix, 5, Princess Irene, 3, were learning to ski. Six-week-old Princess Margriet Francisca was turning out to be a model child. "She is very healthy," said her mother. "She is well-trained and doesn't wake us during the night." Modern royalty's family album got a nicely brushed, fluffed, starched, and beribboned domestic portrait...
...father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco-Margriet for "daisy." On the cushion was affixed a daisy-shaped jewel sent from London by Grandmother Queen Wilhelmina. Doubtless fixed in the minds of secretly celebrating burghers in The Netherlands was the meaning of Francisca, which is "free...