Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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International jurists elevated an eyebrow. Students of the validity of human testimony jotted an additional note or two. The Manhattan-edited Chicago-printed weekly, Liberty, was "permanently" barred from Canada, "because it is publishing a series of articles concerning King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and the present Prince of Wales which are misrepresentations and libelous." Thereupon the persons immediately concerned flatly contradicted one another, as follows...
...Patterson, President of Liberty: "Some seem to hold a mistaken impression that this narrative . . . 'The Heartbreak of a Queen'. . . in some way reflects upon the late Queen Alexandra. Nothing could be farther from the fact...
...conceded, visited young Lady Mordaunt frequently prior to the birth of the child. . . . Immediately following the baby's birth she made a confession to her husband, implicating the Prince of Wales, Lord Cole, Sir Frederick Johnston and others. . . . Notwithstanding a jury verdict completely exonerating Edward . . . the scandal touched Alexandra a little more than any other...
Well-posted correspondents positively and unanimously affirmed that the engagement of Prince Henry, third son of King George, to Lady Mary Scott, fourth daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, will be announced as soon as a decent interval has succeeded the official termination of mourning for Queen Alexandra, which occurred late in the week. Meanwhile Lady Mary and her royal "fiancé by acclamation" were subjected to the usual ruthless publicity...
...Carolist press, although mercilessly repressed by the Government censor, managed to insinuate the alleged significance of all these developments. It hinted that before Prince Carol set out to attend the funeral of Queen Alexandra (TIME, Jan. 11,) he "encountered Prince Babu Stirbey in the antechamber of Queen Marie's apartments and proceeded to box his ears...