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Beatrix

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Be·a·trix  (b-trks, b-) Born 1938.
Queen of the Netherlands who ascended the throne in April 1980 after the abdication of her mother, Juliana.

Beatrix [ˈbiːətrɪks]
n
(Biographies / Beatrix (1938 F, Dutch, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) full name Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard. born 1938, queen of the Netherlands from 1980


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I believe this unpleasant and preposterous affair is thought one of the fine things in the story; I do not mind owning that I thought it so myself when I was seventeen; and if I could have found a Beatrix to be in love with, and a Lady Castlewood to be in love with me, I should have asked nothing finer of fortune.
Henry Esmond himself is Thackeray's most thoroughly wise and good character, and Beatrix is as real and complex a woman as even Becky Sharp.
 
 
 
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