Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's Young Progressives' President, Wilhelmina Davis '52, yesterday claimed that her organization, which lost its charter at the last Student Council session, had received no word of the deadline for rechartering and had every intention of remaining an Annex club...
...Queen Wilhelmina asked me to return the decoration which she had once bestowed on me. And do you know why? A newspaper poll once revealed that Mengelberg was the most popular name in Holland, and that the Queen held only second place . . ." His secretary apologetically intervened: "He sometimes can't get the facts straight any more...
...Princess Wilhelmina, who abdicated last September as Queen of The Netherlands, finally got her pension approved by the Dutch parliament, which decided, despite grumbles from a guilder-minded minority, that 400,000 ($151,000) a year was not too much for an ex-queen who had given 50 years' service...
...Long live the Queen," shouted Princess Wilhelmina from the palace balcony when the ceremony was over. As the crowd below echoed the cheer, she threw her arms around her daughter and bussed her firmly. Juliana wept. A few minutes later, the ex-Queen left the balcony and the realm to her successor. In the square below, the crowd burst into the traditional anthem Up Orange! Some remembered to alter the last line to "Long Live Juliana!" Others went right on singing "Long Live Wilhelmina," as they had for 50 years...
...capable new Queen of The Netherlands, who was born on April 30, was as unlikely to be long confused with her mother as she was to assume her mother's birthday. In fact, she began her reign with an act of independence. Wilhelmina's daughter would have none of the orange marigolds which bloom everywhere in floral tribute to the House of Orange. For her formal inauguration, Queen Juliana ordered Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk banked instead with pink begonias...