A report on the life and work of Prince Bernhard. After the war, the by now tremendously popular “fighting prince” transformed himself into an immensely useful “salesman prince.”

“You can ask me to be cynical about lots of things, but not about the monarchy,” said a student in Amsterdam. The vast majority of the Dutch press and public last week embraced the Prime Minister’s advice to consider Prince Bernhard innocent until proved guilty. That generosity of judgment was…