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    HMS Princess Beatrix was a commando troop ship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Built as a civilian passenger liner in 1939, she was named...
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    Prinses Beatrix. After fleeing to Britain after the German invasion in 1940, she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport, renamed HMS Queen...
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    included the command ship HMCS Prince David, HMCS Prince Henry, HMS Princess Beatrix, HMS Prins Albert and four U.S. Motor Torpedo Boats. At 0130 15 August...
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    Caslon. Two newly converted landing ships, HMS Queen Emma and HMS Princess Beatrix, were to transport the landing force. The landing force was provided...
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  • (Small) HMS Prince Charles HMS Prince Leopold HMS Princess Beatrix - Landing Ship, Infantry (Medium) HMS Princess Astrid HMS Prins Albert HMS Queen Emma...
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    tour in September 1982, to attend the funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco. Also in 1982, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands created Diana a Grand Cross of...
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    U-621 HMS Princess Astrid – LSI(S) HMS Princess Beatrix – LSI(M) HMS Princess Josephine Charlotte – LSI(S) HMS Prince Albert HMS Queen Emma – LSI(M) HMS Rocksand...
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  • the Netherlands; sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and aunt of King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands Princess Margareta of Romania (born 1949)...
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    from the Royal Norwegian Navy in a raid on the Lofoten Islands. HMS Princess Beatrix, also new and with a similar flotilla of landing craft, landed No...
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    sentenced to banishment, and Prince and Princess Andrew and their children fled Greece aboard a British cruiser, HMS Calypso, under the protection of the...
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    David, HMS Prins Albert, HMS Princess Beatrix 4 PT boats Screen 8 PT boats Minesweeper Group 5 British: HMS Larne, HMS Clinton, HMS Octavia, HMS Stormcloud...
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    landings. The attacking flotilla included HMCS Prince David, HMS Princess Beatrix, HMS Prins Albert and four U.S. motor torpedo boats. After the action...
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    Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) United Kingdom 1955: Patron, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service 1998: Lady Sponsor, of HMS Kent (F78)[unreliable...
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    (Princes Kraft, Georg Andreas, Rupprecht and Albrecht) and a daughter (Princess Beatrix). Members of the Nazi party from 1937, Gottfried and Margarita used...
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    of Gloucester, the younger son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, in the late 1960s in Cambridge, where he...
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    close to the warship HMS Ocean and then make a starboard turn, which was accelerated by the high winds and lee from HMS Ocean towards HMS St Albans. St Albans...
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  • operating with her sister ship Royal Ulsterman, and the Dutch ships Princess Beatrix and Queen Emma. In May 1943, she took part in landings on the Italian...
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    motor battalion. After embarking on the transport ships HMS Queen Emma and HMS Princess Beatrix, the force spent a month sailing off the French coast disguised...
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    Ferguson and was made Duke of York. They have two daughters: Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Their marriage, separation in 1992, and divorce in...
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    HMS Calypso. The family settled at Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris, in a small house lent to them by Andrew's wealthy sister-in-law, Princess George...
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    as well as the preceding celebrations in honour of the departing Queen Beatrix. In June 2014, Camilla and Charles attended the 70th anniversary commemorations...
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    last Dutch royal babies to survive childbirth until Juliana's daughter Beatrix was born in 1938. Before the First World War began, Wilhelmina visited...
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    the British throne. He is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales. William was born during the reign of his paternal grandmother...
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    youngest daughter of Duke Peter Georgievich of Oldenburg and his wife Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg. On 12 May 1879, Therese married Prince George...
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  • Edward L. Beach Sr., American naval officer, author (b. 1867) December 22 – Beatrix Potter, British children's author, illustrator (b. 1866) December 23 –...
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    to 1972 on the guided-missile destroyer HMS Norfolk and the frigates HMS Minerva, from 1972 to 1973, and HMS Jupiter in 1974. That same year, he also...
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    Andreas of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the groom's first cousin and his wife Princess Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the groom's first cousin The Most Rev. Robert...
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    this year's 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. March 10 – Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg. Some spectators demonstrate...
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    Blues and Royals; Royal Engineers; Grenadier Guards*; Coldstream Guards; Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; and the Royal Logistic...
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    fourth cousin (representing wis wife, the Queen of the Netherlands) Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Mountbatten's fourth cousin once removed The Prince...
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