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…