The heaviest public insult to the monarchy came in 1980, when Juliana abdicated in favor of Beatrix.
The couple were welcomed at Ypenburg Air Force base near The Hague by Dutch Queen Beatrix and her German-born husband Prince Claus after the royal jet touched down.
And I record with pleasure that certain niceties of the choreographic text, which were overlooked at last season's revival, have been restored. This programme also brings back Tales of Beatrix Potter.
This was the site of Beatrix Potter's childhood home, which was destroyed in the Blitz.
Queen Beatrix yesterday swore in Mr Wim Kok, the Labour party leader, as the new prime minister of the Netherlands.
"I have asked her majesty the queen (Beatrix) to allow me to resign," van Eekelen told Parliament.
Elizabeth and Beatrix were 15 minutes late at the Dutch Church in London's financial district, but the service marking three centuries since William of Orange of Holland and his English wife Mary took the English throne did not start without them.
The evaluation panels, for instance, said Open Court's readers abridged Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and omitted the key words "I think I can" from "The Little Engine That Could."
Previous programmes with credulous reporting from people such as Beatrix Campbell had helped turn a modern myth which lacked even a scrap of evidence into a phenomenon widely believed by social workers, clergymen and even members of the police force.
Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands were not amused by getting stuck in London traffic Wednesday night along with thousands of other commuters caught by a 24-hour subway and rail strike.
Bush also had tea with Queen Beatrix and conferred with Dutch leaders at The Hague, the seat of government.
Beatrix Potter's earliest tales developed out of her habit of writing letters to child friends, in which she would describe the antics of her own pet rabbits, with appropriate doodles in the margins.