The Queen who has banished healer Greet Hofmans, decided on a new approach. Princess Marijke, who’s eyesight did not improve, was treated as a normal girl.

Two years ago all The Netherlands was thrown into an uproar by the disclosure (TIME, June 25, 1956 et seq.) that Queen Juliana had called upon a lady faith healer to restore the sight of her fourth daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Marijke). There was talk of the faith healer’s…

U.S. airlines suffer from competition. In the case of KLM, it is not merely a business but a national symbol, compensating in part for the vanishing Dutch navy and the lost East Indies.

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FOR the U.S. international airlines, the biggest problem of 1957 has spawned the bitterest argument. The problem: increasing competition from foreign carriers, largely because the U.S. is letting more and more foreign lines get into choice U.S. markets. Last week, as Pan American World Airways inaugurated a…

The Dutch have no high hopes the royal crisis would disappear. Dutch editors asked for the first time drastic government action to clear up that mess in Soestdijk Palace.

The Dutch royal family were miles apart last week. Queen Juliana, struggling to maintain a gracious smile after entertaining Liberia’s visiting President Tubman in The Hague, took off for a vacation in Sicily with a few of her ladies-in-waiting. Her husband, globetrotting Prince Bernhard, after elephant hunting in Tanganyika, arrived…

Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group.

Nobody outside the innermost palace councils knows exactly what Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told the three eminent statesmen whom she herself had drafted to help mend the rift in the royal family. But the worries of Netherlanders were set at rest at least momentarily last August, when they read…

Last week the Dutch royal couple issued a brief communique on the findings of three elder statesmen appointed to advise them on the Miss Hofmans matter.

The House of Orange has no taste for black headlines. Last week the Dutch royal couple issued a brief communique on the findings of three elder statesmen appointed to advise them last June. “[They] have reported their findings to us and given us advice. Their advice has been a very…

Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and her husband Prince Bernhard last week broke their long silence on the palace influence of Faith Healer Greet Hofmans.

Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and her husband Prince Bernhard last week broke their long silence on the palace influence of Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25). “The way in which it was judged admissible abroad to expose our family life and the relations in our close surroundings to…

To help princess Marijke, who was born with cataracts on both eyes, Queen Juliana asked healer Greet Hofmans, whose influence over Queen Juliana grew over the years.

“We have no desire to enter the private life of the royal family,” announced a leading Hague newspaper primly one day last week. “The Queen’s living room at least should be out of the sight and hearing of those who have nothing to do in there,” echoed another. Thus gingerly…

Queen Juliana reminded the world that the Dutch are still a colonial power in the Western Hemisphere—by graciously relinquishing part of that power by internal self-government.

Queen Juliana of The Netherlands last week reminded the world that the Dutch are still a colonial power in the Western Hemisphere—by graciously relinquishing part of that power. The Queen proclaimed a new Statute of the Kingdom, giving Surinam (Dutch Guiana) and The Netherlands Antilles complete internal self-government and…

Eight nations were tied together this week in a European TV network. At lopik station programs were converted to the 625-lines. One of the future programs is Juliana at a garden party.

From Scotland’s Kirk of Shotts down to Rome, eight nations were tied together this week in a European TV network. The first image seen simultaneously in the eight Western European countries was an offshore view of the storied Castle of Chillon in Switzerland, which has been immortalized by Byron’s…

A confidential letters reminding editors of all Dutch newspapers of an agreement not to print anything about the royal family without prior clearance by the government.

At her palace recently, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands received two of Holland’s top newsmen. Editor in Chief Dr.Maarten Rooy of the Nieuwe Rotter-damse Courant and Robert Peereboom of the Haarlems Dagblad. Said the Queen: she was upset by press coverage and pictures of her and Prince Bernhard on…

The Dutch, a hardheaded people, know no better alternative to “the Russian threat” and “the German problem,” and approved to hand over control of its army to the EDC.

In the 17th century Senate building in The Hague, Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Beyen last week asked his country’s elder statesmen to hand over control of The Netherlands’ proud little army and 20,000-man air force to a supranational authority that does not yet exist. The European Army (EDC) has never…

Helps comes from all over the world to rescue victims of the North Sea flood and to repare broken dikes. U.S. Airman 3rd Class Reis Leming performed a heroic task saving many.

In The Netherlands village of Dubbeldam, a handful of sober, weary Dutchmen paused for a moment to stand bareheaded before a row of four rough wooden coffins, but there was little time for mourning. The very next night new gales whipped the swollen tides down the wind tunnel of the…

Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visited Harry Truman in the remodeled White House. Juliana seemed to be enjoying herself and thanked the U.S. for helping during and after WWII.

Like most of the rest of the U.S., Washington dearly loves royalty, but the capital, still remembering the romantic pomp and glitter attendant on last autumn’s visit by Princess Elizabeth, wasn’t quite ready to be enthusiastic about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands. Frankly, a good many photographs . made Juliana…

As the first European sovereign to make a state visit to France since World War II, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands was treated to the full red carpet in Paris.

“There is an intimation at the women’s colleges that a counter-reformation which could become the hope of the Republic may be under way,” Author Bernard De-Voto (Across the Wide Missouri) observed in Harper’s. “Jeans are no longer universal wear and no one now loses caste by washing her neck ….

A report on Suriname where Prince Bernhard arrived to congratulate the 21 Parliament members on their new autonomy in home affairs.

Circling the Caribbean on a good-will mission, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands last week set his red-nosed, silver-skinned DC-3 down in the only Netherlands territory on the American continent. Surinam, the middle of the three Guianas on South America’s north coast, gave the Prince a gaudily polyglot greeting.

Along the…