Fractured Fairy Tales
Few Netherlanders have much objection to Maxima Zorreguieta. Her vivacity, beauty and brains have conquered even the notoriously stiff-necked Beatrix. But polls say 40 percent of the Dutch people don’t want the young woman’s father at the wedding. A few parliamentarians insist the prince should abdicate before marrying into such a family. Why? Jorge Zorreguieta, 73, was a high-ranking Argentine government official during the “dirty war” of 1976-83, when the junta tortured and killed more than 10,000 suspected leftists....