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...becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain's Princess Maud, and dedicated, like her brother-the future George V-to the sea, the strapping, 6-ft.-3?-in. youngster married his love and embarked on a promising career in the Danish navy, achieving on his own merits...
...government spokesman made it clear that "the Queen has decided to entertain no more relations either direct or indirect with Miss [Greet] Hofmans," the faith healer whose influence over Queen Juliana caused a royal rift (TIME, June 25). Nor would Juliana attend any more religious conferences at ex-Queen Wilhelmina's country palace, Het Loo, where Greet Hofmans held sway over a religious-minded group of peace enthusiasts...
...hope and trust lies before me in a yet far-distant future," Beatrix had promised when she became an official member of the State Council. In most kingdoms monarchs reign until their deaths, but in The Netherlands retirement in favor of the royal heir has become expected. Ex-Queen Wilhelmina, still alive and 68, gave way to her daughter Juliana in 1948. If some such shift of the crown from Juliana to Beatrix is now under consideration, no Dutch newspaper was so tactless as to hint...
...Europe can boast the solid, sobersided respectability of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. For an aggregate of 66 years, its last two Queens have reigned with the placidity of huisvrouwen. The marriage of the present Queen Juliana,who succeeded to the throne at the retirement of her mother Wilhelmina in 1948, to German Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence as "the idyl at Soestdijk," and even the fact of still...
Downtown Djakarta sprawls rank and sullen in the fetid subequatorial heat. Wilhelmina Park, once the pride of the city's stolid Dutch proconsuls, now lies half given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...