Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody outside the innermost palace councils knows exactly what Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told the three eminent statesmen whom she herself had drafted to help mend the rift in the royal family. But the worries of Netherlanders were set at rest at least momentarily last August, when they read reports issuing from the National News Agency that the Queen had "promised' to do all in her own power to reach a reconciliation with her husband (TIME, Sept. 3). Juliana, it was said, had not only agreed to see no more of Greet Hofmans, the faith healer whose influence...
...many an embarrassed and discomfited Dutchman, wishing only that the whole ugly scandal would disappear, such words, with their apparent ring of authenticity, sounded comforting indeed. The only trouble was that in Queen Juliana's mind matters were not so neatly settled. Reading the printed reports, she seethed. Since when did a Queen of the House of Orange have to promise anything to her confidential advisers? Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group. The only change made in the royal household...
Juliana's renewed obstinacy prompted two of her three wise men to protest that she had gone back on her word, and this in turn so angered the Queen that she threatened to broadcast her version of the story to her subjects. When pro tern Premier Willem Drees heard of this, he told Juliana bluntly that he had given orders to broadcasting authorities not to permit the Queen to go on the air. Meanwhile, far from fulfilling his ordained role in the masquerade of renewed connubiality, Prince Bernhard, the Queen's husband, made less and less effort...
...hand pressed flat and white against the black skirt, the other holding the script before her, she read the Queen's description of Ophelia's drowning in a soft, haunting voice. "There is a willow grows aslant a brook...
Proper Admiration. But the string of superb victories looked to some Britons of Marlborough's day like an endless series of bloody shambles. Good Queen Anne began to cry aloud, "Oh, Lord, when will all this dreadful bloodshed cease?" Sarah, fighting desperately to keep the Queen under her thumb, only succeeded in losing Anne's affections. The Churchills' many enemies closed in-and with a crash like falling idols, both Sarah and John were thrust from their offices. But, by then, they were millionaires...