Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexandra's grandson, officially representing the Norwegian and Danish royal houses...
...Daughter of Alexandra...
...spell out the glaring slur read it aloud to their friends and chuckled; it was a good line, the sort of thing that makes the News their favorite newspaper. They bent to scrutinize the photograph that was printed below- a picture of the funeral of the Queen Mother, Alexandra. There were King George and the Prince of Wales stalking with solemn strides; there were King Christian of Denmark in a plumed hat, the King of Norway and the King of Belgium, all marching with a sad air through the snow in the wake of the coffin...
Said the cut-caption: "By the marvelous Bartlane process of photo-transmission by cable, THE NEWS today is able to print the above photo of kings and princes yesterday trudging in the snow to pay last tribute to Queen Alexandra...
That was great; good stuff, and new too; what other paper had the courage to tell the truth about Alexandra? Since the readers of the News think, as they read, by pictures, a remarkable tableau rose in their minds: They saw the Dowager Queen in her last moments-a bejeweled crone lifting her glass for the last time in a toast, perhaps to the physicians who had tended her. . . . "Good old sport!" they murmured...