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...question," she sniffed. There were other nosy queries, but at last they were done and the searing TV lights went off. Gasped Daisy, better known as Princess Margrethe, 25, who will some day be Queen of Denmark, of the Wends and the Goths, Duchess of Slesvig, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauenborg and Oldenborg: "Phew! That...
Thus, on her 18th birthday, was Margrethe Alexandrine Torhildur Ingrid, popularly known as Daisy, installed as Tronfolger-heir to the throne and some day Queen of Denmark, of the Wends and the Goths, Duchess of Slesvig, Holstein, Siormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauenburg and Oldenburg, and 50th sovereign of the oldest continuous kingdom in Europe...
...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
When the royal yacht Dannebrog put in at Reykjavik, Iceland's metropolis, it flew not the white-crossed red flag of Denmark but Iceland's own royal flag of red, white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing...
Observers agreed that, should Chancellor Hitler decide to pick a war tomorrow, fat little Denmark, a land of farmers as defenseless as their cows, would offer the easiest prize, especially since North Slesvig is swarming with Danish Nazis financed from Berlin. But the main danger was not last week that Germans may be so foolish as to start any kind of war in 1933. The longer Adolf Hitler waits, the keener his Reichswehr and Storm Troops become, the more arms the Fatherland secretly or openly acquires, the greater will be Germany's chance to strike with success. The danger...