Word: huizinga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have acted as one of the bridegroom's witnesses, failed to come to The Hague, giving the excuse of "illness" which was known to be a fib. This so incensed Queen Wilhelmina that Her Majesty named to act as a witness in his place Professor Jan Huizinga, a Dutch writer of tart anti-Nazi tracts, under whom the Crown Princess once studied history. German correspondents who had come to cover the wedding promptly left The Hague in a huff, all except...