Word: zu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major ripple on the placid surface of Queen Wilhelmina's personal life of late has been the acquisition of a son-in-law in Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, whose line has not enjoyed temporal sovereignty in the hilly little Principality of Lippe-Detmold since 1849. Nobody in The Netherlands had ever heard of the Prince before his engagement to Juliana was announced, but all knew that he must fit the proper specifications of a Prince Consort. He must be of royal blood, a Protestant, of flawless character, in perfect health. He was all that, but he also proved...
Once they glimpsed King Leopold pacing up & down inside, gesticulating while he talked. Later they saw Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Princess Juliana and a member of the Dutch Army General Staff, dash out of the Palace's single entrance, get into a car and leave. At 1:30 a.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens left. Gradually the Palace lights went...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...
...Demand for Action." On the newsstands appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of Equality, "A Monthly Journal to Defend Democratic Rights and Combat Anti-Semitism and Racism." Conceived by Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein (a Catholic), Equality has on its editorial council such prominent Jewish intellectuals as Publisher Bennett Cerf, Playwrights Moss Hart and Lillian Hellman, Anthropologist Franz Boas. Its first issue contains articles on anti-Semitism by such potent non-Jews as Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Warden Lewis E. Lawes, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Its credo...
...article brought an immediate call at the Foreign Office from German Minister Prinz Viktor zu Wied, who called it a gross insult on the person of the Field Marshal. The author of that gross insult, it turned out, was none other than the Knight of the Silver Shield-Nils Silfver sköld, brother-in-law of Field Marshal Göring...