Since this cache has been ripped 3 times, I have found a better and more secure hiding spot (coordinates are up-to-date !).
Cache is big enough for trackables, coins and other items.
Wist je dat High Tea and het Adellijke levenstijl sterk met elkaar verbonden zijn !
Het is een drukke en gezellige straat, maar pas op dat Mugglers niet zien dat hier een cache ligt !!
Ik hoop dat de educatieve informatie (zie uitgebreide cache omschrijving) een mooie aanvulling is om vanavond aan de eettafel te bespreken....
Did you know that High Tea and Royal life style were and are closely related !
It is a busy and nice street, but please be careful not to disclose this cache to Mugglers !!
I hope this educative information (see additional cache information) provides an interesting discussion at the dinner table tonight.
Near this cache (approx. 300m) is a beautiful Park (Wilhemina Park) named after one of Dutch Queens who reigned the longest.
In this park are 3 other caches hidden (1 - Negende Circle, 2 - Watercipres, 3 - Fagus Sylvatica).
Why not log this cache, enjoy a nice high tea while solving the puzzles for the other 3 caches....
Enjoy your cache hunting !!
HIGH TEA
This article is about meals referred to as "Tea". For the beverage, see tea.
Tea can refer to any of several different meals or mealtimes, depending on a country's customs and its history of drinking tea. However, in those countries where the term's use is common, the influences are generally those of the former British Empire (now the Commonwealth of Nations). Tea as a meal can be small or large.
United Kingdom and Ireland
Elevenses
Main article: Elevenses
Elevenses is a
snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning. It is generally less savoury than brunch, and might consist of some cake or biscuits with a cup of coffee or tea.
Afternoon tea / low tea
Afternoon tea or
low tea is a small meal snack typically eaten between 4pm and 6pm. Observance of the custom originated amongst the wealthy classes in
England in the 1840s.
Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford, is widely credited as transforming afternoon tea (or low tea) in England into a late-afternoon meal whilst visiting
Belvoir Castle, though
Charles II of England's wife
Catherine of Braganza is often credited with introducing tea to the court upon her arrival in 1662. By the end of the nineteenth century, afternoon tea or low tea had developed into its current form and was observed by both the upper and middle classes: "the table was laid...there were the best things with a fat pink rose on the side of each cup; hearts of lettuce, thin bread and butter, and the crisp little cakes that had been baked in readiness that morning."
Traditionally, loose tea is brewed in a
teapot and served with milk and sugar. The sugar and caffeine of the concoction provided fortification against afternoon doldrums for the working poor of 19th and early 20th century England who had a significantly lower calorie count and more physically demanding occupation than most Westerners today. For laborers, the tea was sometimes accompanied by a small sandwich or baked snack (such as scones) that had been packed for them in the morning. For the more privileged, afternoon tea was accompanied by luxury ingredient
sandwiches (customarily
cucumber,
egg and
cress, fish paste,
ham, and
smoked salmon),
scones (with
clotted cream and jam, see
cream tea) and usually cakes and pastries (such as
Battenberg cake,
fruit cake or
Victoria sponge). In hotels and tea shops the food is often served on a tiered stand; there may be no sandwiches, but bread or scones with butter or margarine and optional jam or other spread, or toast, muffins or
crumpets.
For much of the twentieth century, methods of preparing and serving afternoon tea were the subject of much snobbery. In a letter to Nancy Mitford, a social commentator and great satirist of upper class behavior, the author Evelyn Waugh mentions a mutual friend who uses the expression 'rather milk in first' to express condemnation of those lower down the social scale. This expression was used by the Georgian and Victorian elite to deride their middle-class governesses for the practice of pouring milk into the cup first, dubbing them "milk-in-first misses." In the British film
Gosford Park the tension is depicted as continuing to exist; Lady Sylvia McCordle sneers at the police Inspector Thomson for putting the "milk in first" and in the film he quickly realises how the act demonstrates his social "inferiority" and becomes embarrassed. Nowadays the 'milk in first or tea in first' debate is altogether more light-hearted, but nonetheless everyone has his or her preferred method of making tea.
Isabella Beeton, whose books on
home economics were widely read in the 19th century, describes afternoon teas of various kinds: the old-fashioned tea, the at-home tea, the family tea and the high tea and provides menus. Nowadays, a formal afternoon tea is often taken as a treat in a
hotel or
tea shop. Most high quality hotels in Britain serve afternoon tea, sometimes in a palm court, and more recently have offered the option of champagne instead of tea.
In everyday life, many Britons take a much simpler refreshment consisting of tea (and occasionally
biscuits) as one of many short
tea breaks throughout the day.
High tea
High tea (also known as
meat tea) is the evening meal or dinner of the working class, typically eaten between 5pm and 7pm.
High tea typically consists of a hot dish such as fish and chips, shepherd's pie, or macaroni cheese, followed by cakes and bread, butter and jam. Occasionally there would be cold cuts of meat, such as ham salad. Traditionally high tea was eaten by middle to upper class children (whose parents would have a more formal dinner later) or by labourers, miners and the like when they came home from work. The term was first used around 1825 and high is used in the sense of well-advanced (like
high noon, for example) to signify that it was taken later in the day.
The term "high tea" was used as a way to distinguish it from afternoon tea. Though it is often stated that the words "low" and "high" refer to the height of the tables from which either meal was eaten, the term for the later meal actually relates to the usage of "high" as in the phrase "it's high time". Afternoon tea was served in the garden where possible; otherwise it was usually taken in a day room, library or salon where low tables (like a coffee table) were placed near sofas or chairs generally (hence the fallacy about it being low tea).
Other uses
In many parts of the British Isles,
tea is used to mean the main evening meal.
France, Belgium and Switzerland
French-speaking nations have "le goûter" or "le quatre heures", in other words, the 4:00 afternoon snack.
Le goûter is most often prepared for children who have returned from school hungry, to keep them satisfied until dinner.
Generally
le goûter consists of a baguette or roll with butter and jam or chocolate shavings or other chocolate spread, or chocolate cookies, accompanied by hot chocolate, or orange juice, but never with tea or coffee (
café au lait or milky tea are for breakfast; tea and coffee being considered as too exciting for children at the end of the daytime). Goûter for adults may consist of fruit syrups in water or
sparkling water, and light
biscuits (
cookies) or pastries. Although it never really went away, the custom is now becoming very trendy in France as a nostalgic wave of baby boomers recall their childhood gastronomic pleasures.
The goûter, for children, is different from the tea party in France, or "thé" in French, which is a little formal party in the afternoon given at home for adult guests, usually between 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock. It consists of tea, juices, limonades, or syrups, pastries, petits fours, and biscuits or cakes. The cocktail party is only given after 7 o'clock, and includes alcohol, as the "thé" doesn't.
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QUEEN WILHELMINA
Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was
Queen regnant of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the
economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major
colonial power. Outside the Netherlands she is primarily remembered for her role in
Early life
Princess Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of the Netherlands, Princess of
Orange-Nassau, was born on 31 August 1880 in
The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child of
King William III and his second wife,
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was characterised by a close relationship with her parents, especially with her father, who was 63 years of age when she was born.
King William III had three sons with his first wife,
Sophie of Württemberg. However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of them and only the childless
Prince Alexander and the King's uncle
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so under the
Semi-Salic system of inheritance that was in place in the Netherlands until 1887, she was third in line to the throne from birth. When Prince Frederick died a year later in 1881, she became second in line. When Wilhelmina was four, Alexander died and King William III died on 23 November 1890, and, although Princess Wilhelmina became queen of the Netherlands instantly, her mother, Emma, was named
regent.
In 1895, Queen Wilhelmina visited Queen
Victoria of the United Kingdom, who penned an evaluation in her diary:
The young Queen ... still has her hair hanging loose. She is slender and graceful, and makes an impression as a very intelligent and very cute girl. She speaks good English and knows how to behave with charming manners
Marriage and succession
Wilhelmina was enthroned on 6 September 1898. On 7 February 1901 in The Hague, she married
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Nine months later, on 9 November, Wilhelmina suffered a miscarriage, and on 4 May 1902 she gave birth to a premature stillborn son. Her next pregnancy ended in another miscarriage on 23 July 1906. During this time period, Wilhelmina's
heir presumptive was her first cousin once removed
William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and next in line was his aunt (and Wilhelmina's cousin)
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. As it was assumed that the former would renounce his claim to the Dutch throne, and that the latter was too elderly and sickly to become Queen, Marie Alexandrine's eldest son
Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz stood in line to succeed Wilhelmina, assuming she had no surviving children. Heinrich was a German prince with close associations with the Imperial family and the military; and there were fears that were the Queen to remain childless, the Dutch Crown "was bound to pass into the possession of a German prince, whose birth, training, and affiliations would naturally have led him to bring Holland within the sphere of the German Empire, at the expense of her independence, both national and economic", according to one contemporary publication. The birth of
Juliana, on 30 April 1909, was met with great relief after eight years of childless marriage. Wilhelmina suffered two further miscarriages on 23 January and 20 October 1912.
Reign
Tactful, and careful to operate within the limits of what was expected by the Dutch people and their elected representatives, the strong-willed Wilhelmina became a forceful personality who spoke and acted her mind. These qualities showed up early in her reign when, at the age of 20, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship to South Africa to rescue
Paul Kruger, the embattled President of the
Transvaal.
Wilhelmina had a stern dislike of the United Kingdom, which had annexed the republics of Transvaal and
Orange Free State in the
Boer War. The
Boers were descendants of early Dutch colonists, to whom Wilhelmina felt very closely linked. Nevertheless, in 1940, King George VI sent the warship
HMS Hereward, to rescue Wilhelmina, her family and her Government and bring them to safety in the UK, which offered the Netherlands facilities including broadcasting time on the BBC.
Queen Wilhelmina also had a keen understanding of business matters and her investments made her the world's richest woman, a status retained by her daughter,
Juliana, and by her granddaughter,
Queen Beatrix.
Before the First World War started, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful
German Emperor Wilhelm II, who boasted to the Queen of a relatively small country, "my guards are seven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them." Wilhelmina smiled politely and replied, "Quite true, Your Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we open our
dikes, the water is ten feet deep!"
World War I
The Netherlands remained neutral during
World War I. However, the
Allies included the Netherlands in their blockade of Germany, intercepting all Dutch ships and severely restricting Dutch imports to ensure goods could not be passed on to Germany.
Wilhelmina was a "soldier's queen"; being a woman, she could not be Supreme Commander, but she nevertheless used every opportunity she had to inspect her forces. On many occasions she appeared without prior notice, wishing to see the reality, not a prepared show. She loved her soldiers, and was very unhappy with most of her governments, which were always eager to cut the military budget. Wilhelmina wanted a small but well trained and equipped army.
In the war, she felt she was a "Queen-On-Guard". She was always wary of a German attack, especially in the beginning. However, the chief violation of Dutch sovereignty was the Allied blockade.
Civil unrest gripped the Netherlands after the war, spurred by the 1917
Bolshevik revolution in
Russia.
Socialist leader
Pieter Jelles Troelstra wanted to abolish the existing government and the monarchy. Instead of a violent revolution, he hoped to do this by winning control of
Parliament in an election, supported by the working class. However, the popularity of the young Queen helped restore confidence in the government. Wilhelmina brought about a mass show of support by riding with her daughter through the crowds in an open carriage.
At the end of World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm fled to the Netherlands, where he was granted political asylum, partly owing to his family links with Queen Wilhelmina. In response to Allied efforts to get their hands on the deposed Kaiser, Wilhelmina called the Allies' ambassadors to her presence and lectured them on the rights of asylum.
Between the wars
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Netherlands began to emerge as an industrial power. Engineers reclaimed vast amounts of land that had been under water by building the
Zuiderzee Works. In 1934, both Wilhelmina's mother
Queen Emma and her husband,
Prince Hendrik, died.
The interbellum, and most notably the economic crisis of the 1930s, was also the period in which Wilhelmina's personal power reached its zenith; under the successive governments of a staunch monarchist prime minister,
Hendrik Colijn (
ARP), Wilhelmina was deeply involved in most questions of state.
In 1939, Colijn's fifth and last government was swept away by a vote of no confidence two days after its formation. It is widely accepted that Wilhelmina herself was behind the formation of this last government, which was designed to be an extra-parliamentary or 'royal' cabinet. The Queen was deeply skeptical of the parliamentary system and tried to bypass it covertly more than once.
She also arranged the marriage of her daughter Juliana to
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, a German aristocrat. Although it was claimed that he was initially a supporter of the
Nazi regime, no hard evidence of this has ever been found or publicized. The prince however, was a member of the Nazi Party and of the so-called
Reiter-SS(SS Cavalry Corps), as was proved by the Dutch national institute for war documentation,
NIOD.
In 1939, the government proposed a refugee camp for German Jews fleeing the Nazi regime. Wilhelmina intervened, as she felt the planned location was "too close" to her summer residence. The camp was finally erected about 10 km from the village of
Westerbork.
World War II
On 10 May 1940,
Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina had wanted to stay in the Netherlands: she had planned to go to the southern province of
Zeeland with her troops in order to coordinate further resistance from the town of
Breskens and remain there until help arrived, much as
King Albert I of Belgium had done during World War I. She fled The Hague, and she boarded
HMS Hereward, a British destroyer which was to take her south; however, after she was aboard, Zeeland came under heavy attack from the
Luftwaffe and it was considered too dangerous to return. Wilhelmina was then left with no option but to accept George VI's offer of refuge. She retreated to
Britain, planning to return as soon as possible.
The Dutch armed forces in the Netherlands, apart from those in Zeeland, surrendered on 15 May. In Britain, Queen Wilhelmina took charge of the
Dutch government in exile, setting up a chain of command and immediately communicating a message to her people.
Relations between the Dutch government and the Queen were tense, with mutual dislike growing as the war progressed. Wilhelmina went on to be the most prominent figure, owing to her experience and knowledge. She was also very popular and respected among the leaders of the world. The government did not have a parliament to back them and had few employees to assist them. The Dutch prime minister,
Dirk Jan de Geer, believed the Allies would not win and intended to open negotiations with the Nazis for a separate peace. Therefore Wilhelmina sought to remove De Geer from power. With the aid of a minister,
Pieter Gerbrandy, she succeeded.
During the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like
Winston Churchill, Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over
Radio Oranje.
The Queen called
Adolf Hitler "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaited by her people, who had to hide in order to listen to them illegally. An anecdote published in her
New York Times obituary illustrates how she was valued by her subjects during this period:
Although celebration of the Queen’s birthday was forbidden by the Nazis, it was commemorated nevertheless. When churchgoers in the small fishing town of
Huizen rose and sang one verse of the Dutch national anthem,
Wilhelmus van Nassauwe, on the Queen’s birthday, the town paid a fine of 60,000 guilders.
Queen Wilhelmina visited the United States from 24 June to 11 August 1942 as guest of the U.S. government. She vacationed in Lee, Massachusetts, and visited New York City, Boston, and Albany, New York. She addressed the U.S. Congress on 5 August 1942, and was the first queen to do so.
Queen Wilhelmina went to Canada in 1943 to attend the christening of her grandchild
Princess Margriet on 29 June 1943 in Ottawa and stayed awhile with her family before returning to England.
During the war, the Queen was almost killed by a bomb that took the lives of several of her guards and severely damaged her country home near
South Mimms in England. In 1944, Queen Wilhelmina became only the second woman to be inducted into the
Order of the Garter. Churchill described her as the only real man among the governments-in-exile in London.
In England, she developed ideas about a new political and social life for the Dutch after the liberation. She wanted a strong cabinet formed by people active in the resistance. She dismissed De Geer during the war and installed a prime minister with the approval of other Dutch politicians. The Queen "hated" politicians, instead stating a love for the people. When the Netherlands was liberated in 1945 she was disappointed to see the same political factions taking power as before the war. Before the end of the war, in mid-March 1945, she travelled to the Allied occupied areas of the south of the Netherlands, visiting the region of
Walcheren and the city of
Eindhoven where she received a rapturous welcome from the local population.
Following the end of World War II, Queen Wilhelmina made the decision not to return to her palace but to move into a mansion in The Hague, where she lived for eight months. She travelled through the countryside to motivate people, sometimes using a bicycle instead of a car. However, in 1947, while the country was still recovering from World War II, the revolt in the oil-rich
Dutch East Indies saw sharp criticism of the Queen by the Dutch economic elite.
Around the same time, Wilhelmina's health started failing her. Bad health caused her to cede her monarchial duties to her daughter Juliana temporarily towards the end of 1947 (October 14 through December 1). She considered abdication but Juliana pressed her to stay on for the stability of the nation, urging her to complete 60 years on the throne. Wilhelmina tried to comply, but exhaustion forced her to relinquish monarchial duties again on May 12, 1948. The timing was unfortunate, as it left Juliana (as regent) to deal with the early elections caused by the ceding of the Indonesian colonies.
Wilhelmina kept her promise to her daughter, remaining on the throne until September 4. Then, being extremely disappointed about the return to pre-war politics, she abdicated.
Later years
As of 1948, Wilhelmina was the only survivor of the 16 European kings and one queen who were sitting on their thrones at the time of her coronation in 1898. The
Dutch Royal Family was also one of seven European royal houses remaining in existence.
On 4 September 1948, after a reign of 57 years and 286 days, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter
Juliana, because of advancing age and illness which had already caused two
regencies, and the strain of the war years. She was thenceforward styled "Her Royal Highness Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands". After her reign, the influence of the Dutch monarchy began to decline but the country's love for its royal family continued. No longer queen, Wilhelmina retreated to
Het Loo Palace, making few public appearances until the country was devastated by the
North Sea flood of 1953. Once again she travelled around the country to encourage and motivate the Dutch people.
During her last years she wrote her autobiography entitled
Eenzaam, maar niet alleen (Lonely but Not Alone), in which she gave account of the events in her life, and revealed her strong religious feelings and motivations.
Wilhelmina died in
Het Loo Palace at the age of 82 on 28 November 1962, and was buried in the Dutch Royal Family crypt in the
Nieuwe Kerk in
Delft, on 8 December. The funeral was, at her request and contrary to protocol, completely in white to give expression to her belief that earthly death was the beginning of eternal life