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Muddled Queen. Most Dutch people now feel that Irene was too headstrong, but that the Queen could have prevented a lot of the trouble if she had been tough a little earlier in the day. Juliana was brought up under the domineering thumb of her mother, the great Wilhelmina, and was determined that her own daughters should have a happier childhood. Crown Princess Beatrix received a good education with a stress on her coming constitutional role, but the three other girls were scarcely trained as princesses and had wide freedom. A friend of the royal family recalls, "Sometimes weeks would...
...conscientious student, Lady Bird rattles off facts and figures. In the Lincoln bedroom, she points out Lincoln's handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address, one of five in existence. She leads her guests through the Rose Room, noting that Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana of The Netherlands, Elizabeth II of England and Frederika of Greece all slept there during their U.S. visits. In the Treaty Room, she shows the ladies an immense chandelier that Jackie Kennedy retrieved from Capitol Hill; Teddy Roosevelt, Lady Bird said, had sent it to the Hill because its noisy tinkling bothered him, and he figured...
White Funeral. War's end brought political squabbling, economic hardship and an exhausting rebellion in the East Indies, and Wilhelmina found it was too much for her. "I have finished my walk," she said, and in September 1948, her golden jubilee as Queen, she turned the throne over to her only child, Princess Juliana...
While crowds outside Amsterdam's Royal Palace cheered "Long live Wilhelmina," the Old Queen slipped out the back door and ordered her chauffeur to drive to The Hague. Halfway there, she turned to her ever present security guards and said, imperious as ever: "Gentlemen, I am a princess now, I am not a queen. So thank you for your services. Will you leave the car, please?" The two baffled guards hitchhiked the rest...
...Died. Wilhelmina, 82, Queen of The Netherlands from 1898 to 1948; of a heart attack; in her small, out-of-the-way Het Loo Palace 70 miles from The Hague (see THE WORLD...