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Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, who counts her money in florins and cents, was right royally interested to learn last week that South Africans may soon be doing the same. In the British Dominion of the Union of South Africa many a citizen is of Dutch descent. When London's pound and shilling went off the gold standard (TIME, Sept. 28), Capetown's pound and shilling stayed on. This was inconvenient. Last week South Africa's legislators were rushing through a bill to create a new Dominion currency of florins and cents...
...good woman of plain tastes; she has an Eastern empire and a fat Prince Consort; she is the Queen Victoria of today; she was last week in Paris for the first time in 19 years-Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Hon. LL.D...
...Government of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina the sum of more than half a million florins ($220,000) was left by Her Majesty's loyal subject Banker Johan Gerard Daniel Waterler with two stipulations...
Dutch Empire, Quiet, matronly Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands refuses to assume the style of "Empress," but she has, in Sumatra, Java and Borneo an empire 31 times as large as her tiny kingdom, one-fourth the size of India and containing 40,892,000 subjects of her modest crown...
Even in her own royal residence on the outskirts of The Hague, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is supposed to obey the rule of her august mother Queen Wilhelmina: "Unmarried ladies of the Court shall not smoke...