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Brother Bert had a way with women and, to the utter amazement of the London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head...
England keeps a leonine eye on all Scandinavia. George Y's introspective sister Maud is Queen of Norway and his mother was Denmark's radiant, regal Alexandra. Last week the most powerful fighting ship on Earth, the 33,900-ton British "superdreadnought" Rodney* hove up to Iceland for a friendly game of Lion & Mouse. The mouse was the trim little Danish orlogsskibe (coast defense ship) Nils Iuel of 4,200 tons. She carried Their Majesties Christian & Alexandrine, King & Queen of Denmark & Iceland, who had come to open amid international jubilation and with Icelandic pomp the "Mother of Parliaments...
...gathering of London newsmen in London last week, spoke the father of Britain's most newsworthy minor, the Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ("Lilybet") Windsor, 4. But His Royal and paternal Highness the Duke of York was not complaining. Goodnatured, he has the good sense to know that great personages tend in democracies to be public property. His mother has taught him, as she herself was taught, humility on the subject...
Born in Little Russia in 1879, the son of a Jewish farmer, Trotsky early became class-conscious. Arrested for revolutionary activities at 19, he spent two years in prison, then was exiled to Siberia. There he married Alexandra Lvovna, revolutionary coworker, because the work that we were doing bound us closely together." Two years later Trotsky escaped. On the fake passport friends provided he wrote the name Trotsky: of his several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference...
Shortly, Queen Mary set off in the Royal Daimler with trusty Humphreys at the wheel to inspect the new Prince of Wales's wing in Alexandra Military Hospital at Westminster. While there she made avery special request. Soon the hospital's best, most splendiferous and highest-powered microscope was trained on a fresh and potent germ culture. Placing her eye as directed, the Queen squinted into a microscopic realm where savagery holds lawless sway, stood face to face with the hungry microbes of MALARIA...