Word: alexandra
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...Prince Carol of Roumania is stopping at a hotel in Venice, Milan and Lucerne, with a mysterious lady who is really Zyzis and Princess Helen, unless she is a Roumanian-Italian-Polish-Jewess of high rank whom he met while attending Queen Alexandra's funeral. He is concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious...
...bedside. A long standing attack of pleurisy had at length reached the crucial stage. At eleven o'clock the next morning Queen Margherita died. The Italian people as a whole unquestionably experienced a sense of a personal loss very similar to that felt throughout England upon the death of Alexandra (TIME...
...fortnight ago Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini canceled an engagement in Albert Hall, London. She could not sing, she explained, because she had taken a severe chill while vocalizing at the obsequies of the late Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went...
...year. It was there, of course, that the present King was born. There, in the great 'Treasure Room," the fabulous riches presented to King Edward on his tour of India are still preserved in seclusion. At present the aged Miss Knollys, lifelong companion of Alexandra, is in charge of Marlborough House, pending its disposition to the Prince of Wales...
Late in the week Edward of Wales made his first public appearance since the death of Queen Alexandra. Three hundred Britons and Argentines crowded to do him honor at a dinner given by the Argentine Club of London. Once more the cables flashed the now stereotyped description: "He arose, wearing a kind of bashful smile . . . fidgeted with his tie . . . blushed slightly...