Prime Minister Den Uyl has ordered an investigation of the Peron affair, where Bernhard paid a bribe to dictator Peron. The accusations are another blow to Bernhard’s shaky public image.

Prince Bernhard, the globetrotting royal businessman accused of being on the take in the Lockheed scandal (TIME, Feb. 23), was charged last week with doing some palm greasing of his own. The Netherlands’ leading newspaper, Amsterdam’s Telegraaf, implicated Bernhard in a $12 million bribe paid 25 years ago to the…