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Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess, advocated female suffrage-energetic traits which she inherited from her Danish mother, the dazzling and haughty British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of still more dazzling, still more imperious Marie Feodorovna, Empress of All The Russias. The two Empresses were resolved that Maud should become at least a queen- of what...
...Rose for the brevity of her name. Royalty, seldom satisfied with less than six names to roll sonorously over the tongues of ushers and court chamberlains, was startled at the staccato abruptness of Margaret Rose. Even so, Londoners wagered that it would soon become even shorter, that as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has become "P'incess Lilybet" to the press, Margaret Rose would be Princess Madge...
Mexicans still speak knowingly of how Comrade Alexandra Kollontay, first Soviet female envoy, met onetime Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles in Berlin, crossed the Atlantic "on the same boat," remained in Mexico as Minister "until they quarreled" (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Last week this scarlet diplomat, wearing a black taffeta gown, drew about her shoulders a soft chinchilla wrap upon which blazed the Soviet Order of the Red Star, stepped into a Royal Coach. The equipage was that of Gustaf V, King of the Swedes. At a merry clip Comrade Kollontay whirled through the streets of Stockholm, alighted...
Married at 17 to her cousin, an engineer, Alexandra Kollontay bore one child, now an electrical engineer in Sweden. She then went alone to Zurich, hotbed of radicalism. Returning to Russia she founded the first working women's club at St. Petersburg in 1907, wrote The Social Basis of the Woman Question. Her next book was the monumental, 600-page Motherhood and Society, points from this last being later embodied into the laws of Norway. She speaks 15 languages, writes warm novel ettes which prudes have called "too realistic." Present...
...that the baby be named Margaret, a name borne by many of Scotland's queens. Their request will probably be acceded to. Margaret is not only a royal Scots name, it is a family name with the Bowes-Lyon. Princess Elizabeth, the Duchess's first child was christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in honor of Queen Mary, the other name suggested by reporters last week...