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Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, was a rebel by her day’s Victorian standards.
Dec. 24, 2006
Entertainment & Arts
An observation regarding “A Beatrix Potter Pilgrimage” (July 16): While Beatrix Potter was visiting friends in Gloucester, she heard the story that formed the basis of what she often called her favorite of her own stories, “The Tailor of Gloucester.”
Sept. 10, 1995
World & Nation
Dutch get a new monarch: Willem-Alexander succeeds Beatrix
April 30, 2013
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Nov. 24, 2009
It is still a crime to insult the royal family in the Netherlands, as a 24-year-old Dutchman recently learned when he was fined 500 guilders ($230) for displaying a poster depicting Queen Beatrix as a pig.
Nov. 12, 1989
“Don’t you think that you should concentrate on Beatrix Potter?”
March 18, 1993
By her own choice, Beatrix Potter, one of the world’s most enduring children’s authors, went largely unnoticed in her own lifetime.
Dec. 20, 1987
Movies
WANDER into a screening of “Miss Potter” a few minutes late to see Renee Zellweger, in a long skirt and loose bun, scribbling in a notebook while musing to herself in British-accented voice-over and you might easily mistake it for another sequel.
Dec. 29, 2006
Dutch Queen Beatrix will make a state visit to Canada next spring, the government press office said Thursday.
Dec. 4, 1987
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was admitted to a hospital in the French resort of Antibes on Tuesday with symptoms of meningitis but will return to The Hague today, a spokesman said.
Aug. 5, 1987