Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London last week British Broadcasting Corp. and Baird Television Ltd. rushed preparations to open an experimental television station this month in Alexandra Palace atop a hill in North London. About July 1, when manufacturers have had a chance to test their sets, the station is expected to start three-hour daily programs. British enthusiasts, who call themselves "televiewers," have been promised sets...
...ALEXANDRA IRINA DIMANCESCO...
...throne after the War. There was at that time a memorable and tragic hour when even the refugee Romanovs, his cousins, had to be denied visas on which they were to have gone to England on the invitation of George V's impulsive mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. With thrones creaking from Berlin to Constantinople, the best and wisest British Cabinet members urgently advised the House of Windsor not to attract attention to this question by becoming hosts to the House of Romanov...
...brother (George V), Prince John, suffered from fits from his birth and died in one when 13 years of age, in 1919, it seems quite probable that both the aunt (Victoria) and nephew (Prince John) inherited this physical weakness from some remote ancestor, either on the Danish side (Queen Alexandra) or the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Prince Consort) side. It is not true, as the Sphere says, that Victoria was very like her mother, Queen Alexandra. Princess Victoria (I have seen her close several times at charity bazaars in London) was very like her father, Edward...
...never married because, in the Victorian phrase, "her beloved was of less than royal station." King George called her his "sweetest sister." She gravely and dutifully aided that merry monarch Edward VII as his personal secretary until his death. Then, with her beautiful and imperious mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra, she passed into even more dutiful retirement, became "Alexandra's shadow." Not until she was 57 did Princess Victoria ever have a house of her own, and then she bought it chiefly as a place of retirement for her late mother's faithful female servants. Last fortnight they...