European military personnel from countries including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands have begun arriving in Greenland to support Denmark’s stepped‑up defence presence amid growing tensions with the United States over former President Donald Trump’s renewed push for US acquisition of the Arctic island. The deployments are part of joint exercises under Operation Arctic Endurance and are intended to signal European unity and reassurance for Copenhagen, even a

On 7 January 1937, The Hague became the focus of Europe as Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands married Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. A civil ceremony took place at the Town Hall on the Groenmarkt. A religious service followed at St. Jacob’s Church, the Grote Kerk. Queen Wilhelmina observed every detail. Juliana was 27. Bernhard was 25. Celebrations extended to Noordeinde Palace and Huis ten Bosch, circa early January. Royal guests arrived from Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and the Unit