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.
The first image is the Rijksmuseum (Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A uniformed armed Dutch soldier stands guard in front of a building, in World War II. Uniformed Dutch troops carrying luggage and belongings, fill the platform at a train station. Next several, smoking cigarettes, are seen looking out a train window. An open truck transports several troops carrying rifles, along a street. Military vehicles carry troops and equipment across a bridge. A single stack working commercial ship leaves a port. Another ship named "Sumatra" (with two funnels) is tied up at a dock. View from below of two sailors installing a heavy machine deck gun. Sailors raising a torpedo from a barge. Dutch soldiers in battle gear occupy a sand-bagged coastal position, manning a tripod-mounted gun. A coastal artillery gun is seen in a rotating turret. Soldier manning a large searchlight. More coastal defense guns. A soldier with a machine gun in front of a windmill. Soldiers moving along a heavily sand-bagged trench. Lone soldier, with a rifle, occupying a trench.
Royal guests attend the reception for a double celebration in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A large crowd gathered outside the Royal Palace of Amsterdam (Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam Postbus 3708 1001 AM Amsterdam) to pay tribute to the beloved Queen of Netherlands, Queen Juliana, and her husband Prince Bernhard during their 25th wedding ceremony and the Queen's 53rd birthday. Amsterdam police form a human barricade to control crowd. Views of the Royal Palace Amsterdam. Crown Princess Beatrix and her sisters, Princess Irene, Princess Margriet, and Princess Marijke (also known as Princess Maria Christina), move past the crowd in a royal carriage. The crowd greets the princesses. View of the Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam (Professor Tulpplein 1 1018 GX Amsterdam Nederland). Guests include Queen Elizabeth II with Mohammad Reza Shah of Iran, Iranian Queen Consort Farah Pahlavi with Prince John of Luxembourg, arriving at the state dinner in Amstel Hotel. King of Norway Olav V, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, Prince Philip of Britain, and King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, and other royal dignitaries also attend the reception. Fireworks organized for the occasion are seen, framing large sign numbers "1962".
Maria Bertha Hertogh (also known as Nadra binte Ma'arof) arrives at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands after she was kidnapped at 5 and later married to a Muslim in Singapore. 13-year-old Bertha Hertogh returns from Singapore to Amsterdam, Netherlands. She along with her mother Adeline Hunter got off a plane. Bertha being greeted by her father Adrianus Petrus Hertogh. A large crowd gather to welcome her after a great turmoil in Singapore. A sign at a doorway reads 'Welkom’. People wave to Bertha.
Map depicting area of flood control activities in the Southeast part of the Ijsselmeer lake in the Netherlands. Spectators watch as a dredge deposits mud spoils to form storm surge barriers in the lake. Aerial views of the dredging operations. An excursion boat takes passengers near for a closer look at the operations. Passengers seen in various costumes. Tug boats and sail boats near the dredging site. Crowd of workers and spectators stand near and upon the newly dredged mud spoils. View of dredge operator. Several persons cross newly formed bridge between two spoils hills. Aerial views of new storm surge barriers taking form. Numerous working boats, barges and a few pleasure boats seen from the air. Boats tied up at dock next to a dam building. Visitors inside the building looking at lock controls and other items of interest. Decorative murals on the walls. Reporters and photographers on a steel landing above seated group of spectators. Queen Beatrix, of the Netherlands, formally opens the new dam by moving levers forward on stage. View of turbine generator sets rotating and engine tappets moving. Aerial view of the entire storm surge barrier in place around Oostelijk,Flevoland and of new lands under cultivation.
Anti-communist protestors riot in support of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, and against Soviet efforts to stop the Hungarian revolution (during Cold War focus on communist threat). The crowds demonstrate holding torch light and banners in West Berlin. People set a structure on fire during the demonstration in Paris, France. People outside the Communist Party Headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands demonstrate. The angry crowd throws objects at the Felix Meritis building, located at 324 Keizersgracht, Centrum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, site of the offices of the Communist Party of the Netherlands. Broken glass in a window outside the headquarters offices of the Communist Party of the Netherlands.. The protestors seen people outside the Felix Meritis building.
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