Word: ruyter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promptly at 9 a.m., a 21-gun salute sounded from the Dutch cruiser, De Ruyter, in the harbor. Carillons throughout the city began to peal, and a company of Dutch marines marched up to the palace to the tune of Colonel Bogie March. In wave upon wave, the royal procession proceeded to the town hall, silver-helmeted motorcyclists, limousines with the visiting kings and queens, six glittering coaches for the bridal couple, Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and their three younger daughters, and Claus's widowed mother, together with rank upon rank of blue-uniformed cavalry officers with high...