Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countrymen first suspected that Irene was soft on Spain when word spread that she had been photographed kneeling at Mass in Madrid's Royal
Queen Juliana dispatched her private secretary to warn the princess that a Spanish marriage would be deeply resented by most Dutchmen, who have always hated Spain, and detest Franco for supporting the Nazis while they occupied The Netherlands. From Madrid, the secretary reported back that the engagement was off. Irene reportedly called Prince Bernhard, her favorite parent, and said she would fly home...
...badly shaken Queen tearfully boarded a military plane with Bernhard and took off for Franco's Spain-where no Dutch monarch had ever set foot...
Stopping over in Paris, the royal party learned that the government would resign if they went on to Spain. The plane flew home instead. Juliana's unceremonious return led many Dutchmen to believe that the Queen would bow before the wave of hostility against the royal family and abdicate the throne. But Juliana could scarcely step down...
...throne. Paris-born Carlos is an athletic, brainy, offbeat grandee who studied at Oxford and the Sorbonne (economics, science, law), was a parachute champion, and served as a French air force captain. Irene and Carlos said they had been friends for several years, but only "formalized our feelings in Spain." Together, Irene and Carlos boarded Bernhard's plane and headed home...