Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would claim," said the Queen from her cherry-pink and gold armchair at the head of the flower-festooned hall, "that Parliament has maintained an unblemished record in its evolution." Nonetheless, Elizabeth pointed out, "its importance to us today is that it stumbled upon and gave expression to ideas and principles which have been recognized and maintained with growing conviction ever since." All the same, the mother of parliaments has brought forth some odd offspring. Among the 21 Commonwealth ministers present, nearly a third came from countries such as Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi, where democracy is about as real...
Claus Watsisname, as it happens, will soon become Prince Nicolaas of The Netherlands. This week, despite stormy protests from their subjects, Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard will introduce him on television as the next royal consort for the 400-year-old House of Orange-Nassau. What ires...
...Claus 'raus!" Asked Rotterdam's good grey Nieuwe Courant. "Can a German put flowers at our memorials for heroes he fought against?" Amsterdam's Het Parool objected that the future queen's husband "cannot be a man whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls...
...rate, the outcry was notably less vehement than last year's storm over Queen Juliana's second daughter, Irene, 25. When Irene became engaged to Catholic Prince Hugo Carlos de Borbón y Parma, a dark horse pretender to the throne of hated Spain, Irene was forced by Parliament to renounce her claim to the Protestant Dutch monarchy. Last week the literary monthly De Gids suggested that Beatrix should do the same if she marries Von Amsberg, passing the succession to her next sister, Margriet, 22, who is engaged to a Dutch commoner...
...Beatrix inherited $4,000,000 from her maternal grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, receives $83,000 a year in state salary (it will be doubled when she marries), will eventually inherit the rest of Wilhelmina's wealth, estimated at well over $100 million...