It will be another month or so before the Northern Hemisphere experiences those truly frigid winter temperatures. Why is there such a big lag between the winter solstice and the coldest days? December 22, 2014. A modern-day druid leads incantations as revelers celebrate the sunrise during the winter solstice at Stonehenge on Monday.
; 31 January 1938) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. Princess Beatrix is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Upon her mother's accession in 1948, she became heir presumptive. When her mother abdicated on 30 April 1980, Beatrix succeeded her as Queen.
1 Beatrix Potter was born to wealth and privilege in 1866, the only daughter of a Nonconformist family from the north who renounced their roots in trade for a place in London society. 2  Number 2 Bolton Gardens, Potters' home in South Kensington, was managed according to the regimens of Victorian propriety. [ 3  more...