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The Christening of Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, eldest child of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, at the Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk in The Hague on this day in 1938. Her godparents were King Leopold III of Belgium, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Elisabeth, Princess of Erbach-Schönberg, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, and Countess Allene de Kotzebue.