Three decades later, when Bernhard and Juliana’s daughter repeated the trick, the reaction was even less positive. Princess Beatrix (whom I later saw resign the throne in Dam Square) announced her engagement to the German Klaus van Amsberg in 1965. Tall and good-looking, Klaus was a scion of a noble family and not a bad catch for a young woman like Beatrix. Unfortunately, he had also been a member of the Hitler Youth and served in the German army during the latter stages of the war. Just twenty years after the Nazi occupation of their country had ended, this was a bit too much for even the
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