Word: amalienborg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royal Danish palace of Amalienborg a choir of Cossacks sang last week from full hearts to a little, weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian...
Later in the day the King and Queen motored into Copenhagen to receive at the Amalienborg Palace he congratulations of various deputations from their loyal subjects. Some of these loyal subjects had wished to buy the King and Queen a summer palace on the island of Funen, but King Christian, hearing of the plan, suggested that such a gift would hardly be in keeping with ;he times, and that anyway he had more castles than he could afford to maintain...