The Dutch Royal Family announces the engagement of Princess Margriet to Pieter van Vollenhoven, a commoner, on March 10, 1965. View of the Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, Netherlands. Princess Margriet seated with Vollenhoven on a sofa along with her family. Queen of the Netherlands Juliana speaks to them. Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, Princess Beatrix with her father, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. A sculpture of the four princesses as a gift to their parents. A large group of press photographers walk up to the palace. Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, with a walking stick from a prior ski accident, come out of the palace together. Press photographers take pictures of the engaged couple. Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven stand together in a garden.
Autumn storm hits Europe. Storm surf waves roll over the coast. Ships and boats struck in the storm and beached offshore. Liberian freighter Ping An stuck off the coast of Ter Heijde, in the Netherlands. Rescue operations underway for the crew of the Ping An, as citizens look on from the shore. Lifeboats from the Ping An reach shore with 49 crewmen happy to be safely on shore. A Dutch coast guard carries an Asian crewman on his back to the shore.
Fishes from warmer seas in an aquarium in Holland. People stand near the aquarium and watch the fishes. Different fishes like the exotic fish and the king fish in the aquarium.