World Wildlife Fund celebrated their tenth anniversary, under the guidance of softspoken, spectacled Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, the fund’s international president.

It is an odd company. Hairy-nosed wombats in southern Australia. Giant turtles on the Galapagos Islands. Polar bears in the Arctic. What each species shares with the others is an improving prospect for survival due to the efforts of a unique conservation organization. That group is the World Wildlife…

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…

350 years ago Rembrandt was born. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings.

In the university town of Leiden, The Netherlands, 350 years ago this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern Renaissance as Leonardo da Vinci towered over the masters of the Italian Renaissance. To mark the…

The beloved Queen Wilhelmina, Europe’s longest-reigning sovereign, observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne.

Formerly the gloomy, box-shaped, 283-year-old Royal Palace in Amsterdam was without electric lights, central heating and had but two bathtubs, both without running water. Here, as required by the Constitution. Her Majesty, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands. Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg, has grudgingly spent…

Queen Wilhelmina celebrated her 25th Wedding Anniversary and participated in a service of thanksgiving. That was all.

Scarcely a sovereign in Europe is so wisely and graciously parsimonious as Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange, Queen of the Netherlands. Her favorite Palace, at The Hague, has such an air of whitewashed simplicity that non-Dutch-speaking tourists have been known to leave the city under the impression the Court…