Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night the Queen sat on the edge of Clint's bed as she tucked him in, and said: "I heard what the prince told you today, and I agree with him. I believe you are a favorite pupil of Jesus." For a moment, two troubled eyes stared back at her. Then Clint said: "I don't believe it! I won't believe it unless my daddy says that he believes...
...Christmas message to the Dutch people, The Netherlands' Queen Juliana spoke out bluntly on the palace crisis that has rocked the House of Orange-Nassau. The royal disharmony manifest between Juliana and her consort, much-traveling Prince Bernhard, apparently focused on the Queen's now renounced ties with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25 et seq.). Said Juliana: "Why . . . do some people attack someone by devious means with false claims? Why . . . do they try to drive a wedge between a man and a woman in vain attempts to destroy a deeply rooted unity...
...brilliant lad," recalled Admiral Brown, "and, in spite of, or, if you will, perhaps because of his handicap, deeply appealing." Queen Frederika grew fond of the boy while the Peurifoys were stationed in Greece, and often asked him for long visits to the royal palace in Athens. During these visits young Clinton Peurifoy played freely with Queen Frederika's two children. One day Prince Constantine said to his little American friend: "My sister and I have been talking about you, and we have decided that you must be the favorite pupil of Jesus...
...Later Queen Frederika told Jack Peurifoy the story. The Ambassador shook his head and said: "I can't tell him that I believe that. I cannot believe that a good and just God would do that to my little boy." And the Ambassador burst into tears. But eventually, as the Queen had advised, he did tell the boy that he believed it was Jesus who had given him this "hardest problem...
...royal Bourbon blood. He was a youthful companion of the young Prince Louis-Joseph, fought as a cavalry officer in the Seven Years' War. At 23, he docilely married the daughter of a rich, petty aristocrat in a ceremony attended by King Louis XV and his Queen. Five months later he was arrested in a local bordello, and convicted of "outrageous debauchery," by a regime that considered ordinary debauchery routine. King Louis XV himself ordered him to prison and accorded no special privileges...