During the two-day session, a new order for Europe began to take shape. Admission of new members, most notably Britain, agreed. Juliana invited the delegates for dinner at her palace.

As she raised her champagne glass, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands surveyed the guests seated around her palace dinner table: the President of France, the Chancellor of West Germany and the Premiers of Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and her own country. Said the Queen in a simple toast: “I wish…

Sympathetic Dutch legislators are expected to double Juliana’s base pay, making her Europe’s highest-paid monarch. From $690,500 to $1,436,000

Living like a king—or queen—is expensive. Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, for example, has long been about to go broke on her $690,500 “civil list” salary. After all, out of that amount she has to pay the wages of some 280 workers of her palace household, ranging from…

In Europe’s wealthiest reigning family, the 400-year-old House of Orange, apple-cheeked Crown Princess Beatrix, 28, was about to marry West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, 39.

THE NETHERLANDS

All Amsterdam was agog as the banner with a heart and crown went up across Kalverstraat, the city’s Fifth Avenue. And huisvrouwen goggled from their windows at open-topped limousines bearing 300 royal guests through town for a little prenuptial sightseeing at the Rijkmuseum and the city’s famed…

Seldom had a Dutch television show drawn so large an audience. Before a nationwide hookup, Parliament was debating a bill approving the marriage between Beatrix & Claus.

Seldom had a Dutch television show drawn so large an audience. Before a nationwide hookup, Parliament was debating a bill approving the marriage of Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, to West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, 39. Ever since the engagement was announced last spring, Von Amsberg has been attacked bitterly…

Claus von Amsberg will be introduced as the next royal consort for the 400-year-old House of Orange-Nassau, on the side of Princess Beatrix.

In the decade since The Netherlands’ Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, attained nubility, Dutch reporters have trailed dozens of potential candidates for her hand. They traipsed along as usual when Beatrix flew off to ski at Gstaad in February. After all, a highly eligible bachelor, Rhenish Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 30,…

An account on the life of the Spanish royal family, with Prince Carlos Hugo, who hopes to use Princess Irene considerable fortune to advance his ambitions.

As sunrise touched the jagged rocks of Montejurra last week, 60,000 Spaniards followed wooden crosses and old battle flags up steep paths toward a plateau on the mountaintop. There, at the heart of the old northern kingdom of Navarre, they gathered for their annual commemoration of two bloody 19th century…

Juliana and Bernhard watched Princess Irene get married. But they watched from a distance of 800 miles and over television. Includes also other information on the Royal Family.

THE NETHERLANDS

Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and her consort, Prince Bernhard, last week watched their daughter, Princess Irene, get married. But they watched from a distance of 800 miles and over television in a room at Warmelo palace, near Amsterdam.

The TV power failed at 12:15 p.m., but there…

In a country precariously balanced between Protestants and Roman Catholics, the crisis flared up again when Princess Irene and Prince Carlos went for an audience with Pope Paul VI.

THE NETHERLANDS

Stuffed tripe, boiled eggs, Edam and Gouda cheeses, several kinds of sausage, salt shakers filled with chocolate to sprinkle on the bread and butter—it was the usual Sunday breakfast enjoyed by a prosperous Dutch middle-class family. The quarrel raging over the breakfast table was recognizable too. The…

Princess Irene, got engaged to Carlos de Borbon y Parma. Without the govenment’s approval, she renounced the right of succession and agreed to live in exile. So died a princess.

ōTHE NETHERLANDS

With 17 suitcases, a pair of bright blue skis and a parakeet in a cage, Princess Irene of The Netherlands tripped gaily aboard a chartered KLM airliner last month, unnoticed by the press. Prettiest of four royal sisters and second in line of succession (after Princess Beatrix, 27),…

To the rest of the world, Dutch politics seem sane and stolid — and most of the time it is. Every few years, however, The Netherlands is gripped by a Cabinet crisis.

To the rest of the world, Dutch politics seems as sane and stolid as a Rembrandt burgher — and most of the time it is. Every few years, however, The Netherlands is gripped by a Cabinet crisis that leaves the country rudderless for even longer than customary in Italy or pre-Gaullist…

There are not enough princes and the Dutch have four unmarried princesses. A ball held a couple of years ago, so that Crown Princess Beatrix could meet some nice boys was unsuccesful.

“There’s this princess, see.” It is a line that has commemorated countless Hollywood script conferences from The Prisoner of Zenda to Roman Holiday. In reel life, the scenarist can find his Prince Charming at Central Casting. But in real life there are not enough princes—charming or otherwise—to go…

Queen Wilhelmina died. An account of her life and work.

In her first appearance as Queen of The Netherlands, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria stood on the balcony of her palace in Amsterdam and stared with a small child’s wonder at her cheering subjects.

“Mama,” she asked, “do all these people belong to me?” “No, my child,” replied the Queen-Regent, “it…

Queen Juliana’s celebrated her 53rd birthday and 25th wedding anniversary, five other reigning monarchs and a pride of princes were also present.

Amsterdam last week was decorated with a million tulips, a billion gaily colored lights, and the most lavish array of royalty that Europe has seen since the coronation of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. To celebrate Queen Juliana’s 53rd birthday and 25th wedding anniversary, five other reigning monarchs and…

After North Sea flood in 1953 a $650 million plan was made damming up four of the region’s principal sea arms. Fortnight ago the Delta Plan marked its first milestone.

On one calamitous day early in 1953, a howling northwester teamed with a wild spring tide. The resulting floods were the most disastrous to afflict The Netherlands in five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands’ southwest, where tidal surges roared…

Queen Juliana’s weakness for the preternatural had landed her back in Dutch newspaper headlines: She had invited to the palace a crackpot from California.

“In the past,” grumbled Amsterdam’s De Volkskrant, “the Dutch press was blamed—and not entirely without reason —for too long concealing the fact that there swarmed about the court people whose heads were too much in the clouds.” The Dutch press could hardly be accused of concealing the facts last…