Word: ilhelmina
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...exemplary private life that Queen W'ilhelmina lived blended well with her shrewd qualities as a ruler. Not a breath of scandal has ever touched her. Few if any bits of gossip ever got through the cold, exclusive circle of Dutch nobility that surrounded the court. She was the good mother, the conscientious leader, the faithful churchgoer. Because of her strong Calvinism, her words came to carry almost a scriptural weight among the nobility of The Hague and Utrecht, the patrician families of Amsterdam, all the older townspeople and villagers in the strongly Protestant North. Nor could...
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