Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch Catholic and Socialist leaders flounder through the attempt, gleefully call attention to each failure, assuming that the increasing confusion would in the long run mean more votes for the Christian Historical Party. Instead, Jonkheer de Geer, who voted against the motion of no confidence, was asked by Queen Wilhelmina to form a Cabinet. Thin, mustached, respected, severe, a shade less conservative than Dr. Colijn, Jonkheer de Geer reluctantly accepted. But, he told his colleagues, the vote of no confidence was a mistake, since it threatened to continue political chaos. "I love my country too much to want those...
...time Dutch low by lasting exactly two days and seven hours. Last June Calvinist Dr. Colijn was compelled to resign when his old-fashioned financial and social policies split the coalition between his Anti-Revolutionary Party and the progressive Catholics. After a month of Cabinet stasis Queen Wilhelmina's Favorite was back again with a museum collection of Ministers. The Catholics and Socialists promptly sent them back to gather more dust...
However divided on politics, all Hollanders unite in agreeing that the House of Orange is the incarnation of Dutch virtue and Queen Wilhelmina the finest sovereign any nation ever had. Last week planes were forbidden to fly over Soestdijk Palace and cars and bicycles passed it slowly and quietly, for there Crown Princess Juliana was waiting for her second baby. At 7 one morning 51 guns announced the birth of a second daughter. The nation was sorry that it was not a male heir, but healthy Princess Juliana has said that she is going to have a dozen children...
...most people who know their English history, Queen Caroline means the unhappy spouse of George IV. But George II's Caroline of Ansbach was, between Elizabeth and Victoria, England's ablest queen. Last fortnight her almost forgotten career was brought to light again by an English matron, in a biography that is a deft combination of scholarship and good storytelling...
...Queen Caroline's real genius, however, lay in the unobtrusive management of her pompous, stupid consort. When they came to the throne in 1727, she teamed with fat, jovial Sir Robert Walpole, then Prime Minister, to keep the King in line and to strengthen his Stuart-threatened dynasty. She even gave the benefit of her wiles to the miniaturist Frederick Zincke, whom she secretly warned "to make the King's picture young, not above 25." Flattered, George bade the painter "employ all your time in pictures for me, for I will take them...