Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely a sovereign in Europe is so wisely and graciously parsimonious as Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange, Queen of the Netherlands. Her favorite Palace, at The Hague, has such an air of whitewashed simplicity that non-Dutch-speaking tourists have been known to leave the city under the impression the Court resides at the late Mr. Carnegie's far more sumptuous Peace Palace. The tastes of the Prince Consort (Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) are likewise circumscribed within the same prudent limits. Hence, when a large appropriation was recently placed at the disposal of the royal pair to be expended...
Last week they found out. The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the heiress apparent, Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, proceeded to the Church of Saint Jacob and participated in a service of thanksgiving. That...
...Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina, the Prince Consort and Premier Colijn toured the flooded districts in a motorboat followed by a second boat loaded with provisions for distribution to marooned sufferers. The floods in the valleys of the Lek and Waal were described as -"catastrophic." Numberless fresh water dykes burst. The enormous hydro-electric pumps installed against just such an emergency were barely able to save the country from irretrievable damage...
...period of the day, Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina drove from The Hague to be invested as honorary doctor of laws. She had a rousing reception, especially from the girl students, who presented her with the first tulips of the season...
...Presidential Palace in Wilhelmstrasse, an official said both newspapers were misinformed. The wreath in question was from her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands...