Word: irenee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beaming with pleasure, The Netherlands' Princess Irene drove out to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport one day last week to meet her future in-laws. The visitors-Prince Xavier and Princess Magdalena-were coming to celebrate Irene's engagement to their son, Spain's Prince Carlos de...
Her plane returned, but not Irene. In a tizzy over the no-show princess, the entire nation watched and waited while Catholic Prime Minister Victor Marijnen consulted with his ministers and the anguished monarch. That night, in a nationwide radio address (she refused to go before TV cameras for fear...
Through the Gates. Irene meanwhile had decided to handle things her way. After about a week in hiding at a Catalonian convent, said a friend, Irene "overcame her difficulties of mind" and would soon announce a "happy family happening." As Bernhard flew off again to bring her home, the princess...
Irene's fate was already sealed. By arriving in triumph with Carlos, instead of meekly returning alone to listen to official advice, the highhanded princess angered many important politicians-Catholic and Calvinist alike-who might have helped her. For the Dutch constitution specifies that an heir to the throne...
Early Sunday, after six weary hours of discussion with the family and its maverick princess, Prime Minister Marijnen and three senior ministers decided sadly that the time had not yet come when the Dutch could contemplate a Catholic monarch and a Spanish consort. Rather than renounce her love, Irene renounced...