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3 unusual facts about Beatrix


Arend Jan Boekestijn

He resigned after sharing information with the press regarding a confidential conversation with the Queen.

Cals cabinet

There was also social unrest ('the sixties'), which became apparent in the Provo movement, construction worker protests, riots over the marriage of princess Beatrix in Amsterdam and the rise of new parties like Boerenpartij, Pacifist Socialist Party, GPV and D'66.

Jewish history of Sopron

In 1490 the citizens of Oedenburg seized upon the Jews and cast them into prison with the declared intention of keeping them there until they consented to cancel the obligations of their Christian debtors; John Corvinus and Beatrix, however, took them under their protection.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation

After a parliamentary debate concerning the information and the coalition agreement on May 20, the informateurs did report to queen Beatrix and the same evening Jan Peter Balkenende was appointed as Formateur.

Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia

He was married to Beatrix (died February 23 after 1125), probably a daughter of Duke Hermann II of Swabia from the Conradine dynasty and sister-in-law of the Salian Emperor Conrad II.

Alphonso Lingis

The venue, staging and costumes were provided by the Kyoto-based neo-Dadaist group Phylloxera (Beatrix Fife, Mamoru Katagiri, Michael Lazarin).

André d'Espinay

1451, the son of Richard d'Espinay and Beatrix de Montauban.

Bartholomew le Gros

Bartholomew was the third son of Henri le Gros, lord of Brancion and Uxelles in Burgundy by his wife, Beatrix of Vignory.

Beatrix Campbell

It was Bobby who encouraged Beatrix to get a job in journalism, and she joined him at the communist daily paper The Morning Star, formerly The Daily Worker, where he was the boxing correspondent.

Béatrix de Cusance

Béatrix de Cusance (1614–1663) was the second wife of Charles IV, former reigning Duke of Lorraine.

Beatrix von Holte

Beatrix von Holte (born 1250; died in Essen on 4 December 1327) was an abbess of Essen Abbey.

Bong tree

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter, written as a prequel to Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and features the land where the Bong tree grows as a locale

Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

Queen Beatrix abdicated on 30 April 2013, and Princess Catharina-Amalia, as the heiress apparent to her father, assumed the title of Princess of Orange, becoming the first to do so in her own right (Suo jure) since Mary of Baux-Orange.

Dinting Vale

The street names in a housing estate in Dinting Vale allude to Beatrix's characters, e.g. Peter Rabbit Close.

Frauenroth Abbey

The abbey, dedicated to Saint George and All Saints, was built in 1231 by Count Otto II and Beatrix von Botenlauben, who were both later buried here.

Genetic carrier

For example, the daughters of Queen Victoria, Princesses Alice and Beatrix, were carriers of the X-linked hemophilia gene (an abnormal allele of a gene, necessary to produce one of the blood clotting factors).

Heinrich II von Rotteneck

Heinrich II von Rotteneck was the son of Count Meinard of Rotteneck and Beatrix, born Countess of Moosburg.

Henry II of Rodez

Beatrix, lady of Scorailles and Saint-Christophe, married (1295) Bernard III (died 1325), lord of La Tour

Henry Pellatt

One of his nieces, Beatrix Hamilton, was married to Canadian economist and humourist Stephen Leacock.

Justin McDonald

McDonald's first major film saw him appearing alongside Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the Beatrix Potter biopic Miss Potter as the young William Heelis, who encouraged the young Beatrix Potter to write and illustrate her stories.

Madurodam

On 2 July 1952, the then teenaged princess Beatrix was appointed mayor of Madurodam, after which she was given a tour of her town.

MS Wisteria

The Vronskiy was built in 1978 as the Prinses Beatrix by Verolme Shipyard, in Heusden, The Netherlands and worked for Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland on their joint Sealink route between Hoek van Holland and Harwich, Parkeston Quay.

Nico Jungmann

In 1900 Jungmann married Beatrix Mackay with whom he had three children, Loyd, Zita (1903-2006) and Teresa (nicknamed "Baby") (1907-2010).

Oliver Millar

His paternal grandmother, Beatrix ("Trixie"), was the daughter of author George du Maurier and the sister of Gerald du Maurier (himself the father of Daphne du Maurier) and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (whose children with Arthur Llewelyn Davies were adopted by J.M. Barrie); she had married Charlie Millar in the 1880s.

Ottawa Valley

Among the well-known people who hail from the Ottawa Valley, are former governor-general and broadcaser Adrienne Clarkson, Alanis Morissette, Margaret Atwood, Lorne Greene, Bryan Murray, Terry Murray, Frank Finnigan, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Matthew Perry, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Redman, Tom Green, Rich Little, Paul Anka, Alan Verch and Princess Margriet, sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

The Earl married Lady Dorothy Beatrix Godolphin-Osborne (3 December 1888 – 18 June 1946), daughter of George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds, on 21 November 1908 in London.

Sierre coach crash

Peter Vanvelthoven, the mayor of Lommel, whose school lost 15 of its 22 pupils and both of the teachers aboard the coach, announced a memorial service the next week in the town, with attendees including the Belgian royal family and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Western Scheldt

The double-decker car ferries that serviced the two Western Scheldt crossings until 2003 were sold to Italian companies, where two of them, the Queen Beatrix (renamed Tremestieri) and Prince Johan Friso (renamed Acciarello) were adapted for the crossing between Messina and Villa San Giovanni on the Italian mainland.


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