Word: maasdijk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princess Beatrix [the eldest daughter of Juliana and Bernhard] on the throne, with her father and her paternal grandmother at her side." A quick check on the registration number of his automobile, said the Pictorial, revealed the man to be none other than Johann G. van Maasdijk, board chairman of the firm that publishes the influential De Telegraaf, and a palace chamberlain "in extraordinary service" to the Queen...
Admitting only that he had given the British newsman a lift, Van Maasdijk promptly denied the rest of the story. But whether the Pictorial spoke the truth or not, declared the potent Het Vrije Volk, the whole thing was "a shameful affair which shows the necessity not only of being in earnest about changes at the court but also of making haste...
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