Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formerly the gloomy, box-shaped, 283-year-old Royal Palace in Amsterdam was without electric lights, central heating and had but two bathtubs, both without running water. Here, as required by the Constitution. Her Majesty, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands. Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg, has grudgingly spent two weeks each year. Recently, however, the Palace has been completely renovated, modernized. Comfortable inside last week were Her Majesty, Crown Princess Juliana & husband, Prince Bernhard, & seven-month-old daughter, Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina...
...faces scrubbed red as Edam cheeses, milled about shouting the famed cheer for the House of Orange: "Orange Boven" ("Orange Up!"). Reason for the "cheers was that their beloved Queen last week observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne. Technically. Wilhelmina, Europe's longest-reigning sovereign,* became Queen 48 years ago on the death of her father, dissolute King Willem Ill, but Queen Mother Emma served as Regent until Wilhelmina reached 18 and was crowned...
Tired of doing water colors of Dutch cows recumbent upon flat fields, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands spent last week in Switzerland doing water colors of upstanding cows browsing against a background of jagged peaks. While Her Majesty thus rusticated, in preparation for her Jubilee in September, it was confirmed at The Hague that Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a second child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three...
...January 1936 the keel was laid. In April 1937 Queen Wilhelmina launched the Nieuw Amsterdam.* With accommodations for 1,232 passengers in cabin, tourist, and third classes, the new, 785 ft., 36,287 ton ship had 374 private bathrooms (a record for her size), 23 public rooms so arranged that all could be thrown together to make her a one-class ship for cruises, two swimming pools, a theatre, more complete air-conditioning and fire protection than any ship afloat, aluminum lifeboats. Most notable of all, her interior decoration ranked her at once as one of the most beautiful ships...
Nieuw Amsterdam, Nearly twice the size of any vessel previously built in The Netherlands, the Nieuw Amsterdam was solemnly launched by Queen Wilhelmina early in 1937. Due to begin her trial runs in the next fortnight, Holland-America Line's air-conditioned flagship is scheduled to arrive in the U. S. next May. Almost exactly the size and speed of Britain's new Mauretania (see below), The Netherlands' vessel differs from the British ship in that it is streamlined, has egg-shaped, sootless funnels, and its $12,000,000 cost was met entirely without Government subsidy...