Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printed the Queen drove out in her regal Daimler. The chauffeur bowled along at moderate pace through a middle-class section of London and presently Queen Mary inspected through her lorgnette the still smoking ruins of the $10,000,000 Crystal Palace on which Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert lavished so much care when preparing the Great Exhibition...
...Edward goes to Marlborough House, leaving at 11:24 p.m. while the Duke & Duchess stay until 12:15 a. m. As they leave the Duke is rumored certain to be King Albert I or King George VI (depending on which name he prefers to use) within a few hours or days, and at 1:31 a. m. King Edward VIII shoots out of Buckingham Palace, driving at terrific speed to his snuggery. Lights out at 2:13 a. m. The daily Court Circular, which is supposed to chronicle all important movements of members of the Royal Family, omits...
...earth should not the King marry an American if he wants?" roars Colonel Wedgwood. "This crisis to my mind is an insult to the United States! What is it that makes an American inferior to a German?"-i. e., the Prince Consort Albert or Queen Mary, whose girlhood title was Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion...
...Elizabeth, Duchess of York and Albert, Duke of York prepared months ago this Christmas Card apropos the Sovereign. At a moment when everyone is coupling King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson, this couples King Edward III and Lady Salisbury. She has dropped her garter, courtiers are tittering, and the chivalrous King is about to master the situation by putting on the thing himself and making the Order of the Garter the most exalted form of British knighthood...
HANNES SCHNEIDER'S school at St. Anton, Arlberg, is probably the most famous center for ski instruction in the world. To him have come King Albert of Belgium; Germany's finance minister, Dr. Schacht; Kurt Schuschnigg, dictator of Austria, and notables from every continent. One of his assistant instructors, Otto Lang, the author of "Downhill Skiing" will extend the Arlberg System to the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington this winter...