Word: soestdijk
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...past three decades, while the Queen usually stayed home in their rambling Soestdijk mansion, the prince, now 64, has served as supersalesman for Dutch goods abroad. The royal couple seem happily matched. "My wife is head of state," Bernhard explains. "I am boss in the house...
...Last week's kidnapings came two days before the Dutch Appeals Court was to rule on prison sentences handed 16 South Moluccans who were implicated in a plot last April to kidnap Queen Juliana and other members of the Royal Family. They planned to storm the palace at Soestdijk after ramming the gates with an armored...
Last week the Queen journeyed from Soestdijk Palace to the little Huis Ten Bosch Palace outside The Hague to consult with the leaders of The Netherlands' fiercely independent factions on how to put together a new government. After interrupting her talks for a visit to the dentist, she finally picked Catholic Parliamentarian Norbert Schmelzer, 43, as her informaleur-the man who, under Dutch practice, is empowered to look for the man who might be able to form a new Cabinet. Forming Marijnen's own coalition Cabinet in 1963 took 70 days of agonized negotiation in jealously pluralistic little...
Back in The Netherlands, the royal party sped to the white Soestdijk Palace east of Amsterdam. When they reached it, 5,000 Dutchmen were waiting in prickly silence. Then the crowd raised a mighty cheer and surged through the gates behind their limousines, singing the Dutch birthday anthem, "Long may she live, hip, hip, hurray...
...week. For the first time, the people of The Netherlands seemed to have abandoned their hope that the royal crisis would disappear if they just pretended not to notice; for the first time, Dutch editors clamored specifically and vociferously for drastic government action to clear up that mess in Soestdijk Palace...