Word: wilhelmina
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...little village of Putte, where he crossed the border, villagers crowded around his car, gave him a silver plate engraved with the names of twelve Canadian soldiers who had died there. The University of Amsterdam gave him another honorary doctorate. He was a guest of Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana and Prince Consort Bernhard at Soestdyk Palace. The Netherlands' Parliament eulogized him as "the grand old man of Canada." Everywhere he went, children and grownups came out of their houses to wave and cheer...
...Wilhelmina's temporary absence (to do a little resting up). She chose instead to look like any old regular at a ladies' Thursday morning discussion group...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...
Like a competent mother, sometimes scolding, sometimes inspired, always devoted, she had kept her national family together through two world wars and a grueling Nazi occupation. In days when many European monarchs reigned only over exiled courts in bleak hotel suites, Wilhelmina kept her throne and the respect of her subjects...
Last week, with her country losing its grip on a large part of its overseas empire, Queen Wilhelmina announced that, "for reasons of health," she would "temporarily" transfer the business of ruling to her strapping daughter, Princess Juliana (mother of four strapping little Princesses). To her shocked people, Her Majesty's first minister announced that there was nothing serious to worry about; the Queen, with all "the heavy burdens weighing . . . on her," was just tired...