Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who still had questions, Dutch newspaper editors were summoned to The Hague's Noordeinde Palace. They were told that 47-year-old Juliana and her 45-year-old German prince were determined to work things out together. A government spokesman made it clear that "the Queen has decided to entertain no more relations either direct or indirect with Miss [Greet] Hofmans," the faith healer whose influence over Queen Juliana caused a royal rift (TIME, June 25). Nor would Juliana attend any more religious conferences at ex-Queen Wilhelmina's country palace, Het Loo, where Greet Hofmans held...
...three distinguished royal advisers acknowledged that some changes in the royal palace were "possible." Presumably on their way out were Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, the Queen's private secretary, and his mother, grand mistress at court. Both friends of the faith healer, they won ascendancy at court (to the distress of Bernhard's friends and of many Dutch politicos) after the faith healer moved into the palace, hoping to effect a cure by prayer on nine-year-old Princess Marijke, who was born nearly blind...
...Example. By the early 1950s, Belgrave's success in Bahrein had made him one of the most influential and respected men in the Middle East and Bahrein a shining example of what Western techniques and money could do for backward nations. In gratitude for Belgrave's achievements, Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1952. Sheik Hamed's son and successor, Sulman bin Hamed al Khalifah, told a visitor: "We consider Mr. Belgrave to be not an Englishman but a Bahreini. He is my hand...
Fabulous Country. In the ten years since the State Department and the Office of Education started their exchange-teachers' program, hundreds of foreigners like London's Catherine O'Connell have come to the U.S., while more than 2,000 Americans have taught abroad. Last week the Queen Elizabeth landed 100 more Britons, who were duly greeted in Manhattan by Cornelius McLaughlin, head of the teacher-exchange section at the Office of Education. By the time the summer is over, the total number of exchange teachers sent to the U.S. will have reached 1,543. Of the many...
...ambassadors. For many it is a year of personal triumph. Among these is Headmaster Henry Callard of Baltimore's Gilman School, who taught a year at King's School in Bruton, England. When he and his family left England, his pupils sent him a stool used at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in Westminster Abbey, solemnly recorded in their magazine: "Whenever in the future any of us feels irritation at the utterances of some American politicians, we shall remember the Callards, and our ruffled feelings will be soothed by the reflection that it is people like them...