Word: wilhelmina
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...Queen Wilhelmina, 62, made her third transatlantic air hop, joined Princess Juliana in Ottawa, planned to stay awhile and get acquainted with four-month-old Margriet Francisca, her new granddaughter...
...daughter, her third. Day after birth the baby was placed on a lace-covered cushion, ceremoniously presented by her father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco-Margriet for "daisy." On the cushion was affixed a daisy-shaped jewel sent from London by Grandmother Queen Wilhelmina. Doubtless fixed in the minds of secretly celebrating burghers in The Netherlands was the meaning of Francisca, which is "free...
...Java jungles Dutch guerrillas waited last week for the news. In London Queen Wilhelmina and ministers of The Netherlands Government in Exile fidgeted. In Occupied Holland people kept watch in doorways while inside their homes forbidden radio sets were tuned to London. In "a little bit of Holland" in far-off Canada, The Netherlands' Crown Princess Juliana would give birth to her third child...
...Juliana's child is a boy he will be the first Prince born to the House of Orange since 1843 and will be in line to succeed Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana as The Netherlands' first King since 1890.* Ordinarily, if born on Canadian soil, the child would be a British subject. To meet this problem the Canadian Government decreed that Juliana's ward in the Ottawa Civic Hospital is neutral territory for the duration of her confinement...
...Wilhelmina succeeded William III, whose death in 1890 was preceded by that of his sons, William (1841-79) and Alexander...