Word: wilhelmina
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...Then Wilhelmina walked the 500 yards back to her car and rode, through a countryside that bloomed again as no other in postwar Europe, to her summer home at Apeldoorn...
Fuel is still scarce. Wilhelmina, like her subjects, got only half a ton of coal last winter. But production in the Limburg mines is coming back; in 1947 it should reach seven-ninths of the prewar output, and be almost normal...
Little Lily. All her life Wilhelmina has admirably filled the role of a Princess of Orange-Nassau. In 1880, fearing that the line would die out and the crown would pass to some alien German princeling, the Dutch waited anxiously to see if the aging King William III would produce a child of his old age. With wild jubilation, they greeted the announcement that a royal daughter had been born...
When she was ten years old her father, having done his royal duty, died, and Wilhelmina became Queen of The Netherlands. She had a lonely time of it. Denied the companionship of other children, she lavished affection and attention on her dolls-scolded them, pampered them, admonished them that "if you are naughty I shall make you into a princess and then you won't have any other little children to play with...
...Luck & Good. Queen Wilhelmina's choice of a consort was Henry Wladimir, youngest son of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Henry was a taxidermist's dream of a German princeling, a beady-eyed, mean-spirited fellow, of whom the best that can be said is that he learned his place (considerably below the throne) and that, after eight years of marriage, he fathered Princess Juliana...