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...Olympians refused to honor them. But last week Queen Wilhelmina voiced the equivalent of a refusal. Firm, logical, pious, she declared her intention of spending a two-months' holiday in Scandinavia. Prudent, she will leave behind to inaugurate the godless Olympiad, her useful Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Mecklenburg Dragoons, but in the spring of 1917 was transferred to diplomatic duty as representative of the Wilhelmstrasse (German Foreign Office) at general headquarters and later represented the Chancellor on the Eastern front, where he made himself so thoroughly unpopular by opposing the militarists that he was transferred to The Hague, Netherlands. After the war he was called to the Foreign Office first as head of the Eastern Department and after as State Secretary of Foreign Affairs - the permanent head of the German Foreign Office. His greatest diplomatic ordeal...
Imperative Request. Not long ago the General, ripe with the prudence of 60, was appealed to by a charming woman whom German Monarchists still hail as their future Kaiserin. She, Princess Cecilia, onetime Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, onetime Crown Princess of Germany, asked little enough of old General von Seeckt. Surely the General would let her eldest son-her Wilhelm-enter the Ninth Company of Infantry in which the Hohenzollerns have always served...
...Juliana girl-guides. At 18 her mother, beloved Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands ascended her most conservative and secure of thrones (1898). Three years later the young Queen espoused as her consort Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Eight years later she gave birth to Juliana amid heartfelt rejoicings. Upon Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana the love and loyalty of the Netherlands is fixed with a firm if stolid passion. Wilhelmina was the sole issue of the late King Willem III. Juliana's position is equally unique. Therefore, without intrusion, a corps of able Dutch special police guarded each moment...
...favorite Palace, at The Hague, has such an air of whitewashed simplicity that non-Dutch-speaking tourists have been known to leave the city under the impression the Court resides at the late Mr. Carnegie's far more sumptuous Peace Palace. The tastes of the Prince Consort (Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) are likewise circumscribed within the same prudent limits. Hence, when a large appropriation was recently placed at the disposal of the royal pair to be expended on the celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary, the foreign diplomats at The Hague speculated whimsically upon the form which this "celebration" would...