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In 1938, two years after the Greek electorate called his older brother George back to the throne, Paul married his youthful German cousin, Princess Frederika of Hanover, 16 years his junior, in an elaborate royal wedding in Athens. But royal housekeeping lasted only until the German Wehrmacht blasted into Greece...
On his formal introduction to the Dutch people in a nationwide television interview, Carlos said that he was "happy to be in Holland because I love Irene." How happy the Dutch were remained uncertain; many were still not reconciled to the idea of affiliation of the House of Orange with...
Secrets of the Confessional. But even Dutchmen who grudgingly agreed that Irene had fallen in love with a proper stranger were still disgruntled over the manner in which the affair had been handled by The Netherlands' government. The nation especially resented seeing popular Queen Juliana humiliated when she first...
Dutch Protestants were not so easily put off. Irene's conversion to Roman Catholicism seven months ago-and especially the secrecy surrounding it-irritated many Protestant churchmen and made them feel that she had betrayed the religion of her birth. In a letter to the Archbishop of Utrecht, Bernard...
Power Tool. In Spain, meanwhile, Prince Carlos' engagement set off renewed maneuvering over his tenuous claim to the Spanish throne. Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, who wants a monarchy to succeed him but who is none too happy at the prospect of installing the present Spanish Pretender, Don...