Word: margriet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biesterfelds like bridge, talky dinner parties, go to bed by 11. Each time Juliana expected a child, the nation waited excitedly to hear whether it was a boy (though by now, the Dutch have got used to matriarchy). Four times it was a girl (Beatrix, now 10; Irene, 9; Margriet Francisca, 5; Maria Christina...
Born. To Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 37, and Prince Bernhard, 35: their fourth child, fourth daughter (the others: Beatrix, 9, Irene, 7, Margriet, 4); at Soestdijk Palace, The Netherlands. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz. Daughter's birth rated a 51-gun salute, a quarter-hour's pealing of church bells (a son-who would have been the first male heir to the throne in 62 years-would rate 101 guns, a half-hour's bell-ringing...
Queen Wilhelmina, 62, made her third transatlantic air hop, joined Princess Juliana in Ottawa, planned to stay awhile and get acquainted with four-month-old Margriet Francisca, her new granddaughter...
Tulips & Terror. Hollanders forsook their tulips for daisies, wore them in their buttonholes, painted pictures of them. The daisy was their badge of allegiance to the House of Orange and exiled Princess Juliana, whose new daughter was named Margriet (Daisy). In Berlin the Sunday promenaders on Unter den Linden strolled past the bomb-pocked buildings and the windowless houses left by Allied bombers...
Doing fine in a not-so-grand Ottawa house, a handy two blocks from nursery school, was the all-girl family of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Princess Beatrix, 5, Princess Irene, 3, were learning to ski. Six-week-old Princess Margriet Francisca was turning out to be a model child. "She is very healthy," said her mother. "She is well-trained and doesn't wake us during the night." Modern royalty's family album got a nicely brushed, fluffed, starched, and beribboned domestic portrait...