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King George, unable to celebrate or permit celebration of his third son's engagement, ordered the Court into a fortnight's mourning. Flustered Court officials sought to exculpate themselves by saying that, although Queen Astrid's death came off the news ticker at 11:58 a. m., they did not consider it as yet official when the Court Circular announcing Gloucester's engagement was read off the British radio at dinner time and released for next morning's papers. They did not doubt that the Queen of the Belgians had been killed. It was merely...
...Gloucester was obliged to mourn last week, he prepared to withdraw to the bachelor seclusion of his regiment at Catterick Camp. It was he who in 1926 represented King George at the marriage of Belgian Crown Prince Leopold and the beautiful young Swedish Princess who last week died Queen Astrid...
...toothy old Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends. Romance has already induced one of his brothers and two of his grandsons to renounce their royal rights and marry commoners. The women of his family, however, behave better about such things. His niece, the Princess Astrid, is now Queen of the Belgians, and last week his pretty 25-year-old granddaughter, Princess Ingrid, made him feel every inch a King by marrying with much pomp & ceremony the 6-ft. 5-in. heir to the throne of Denmark, hulking, kindly 36-year-old Crown Prince Frederick...
Notably absent was Christian's brother, King Haakon of Norway, but he sent his son, Crown Prince Olaf to represent him, and his two toddling granddaughters Princesses Ragnhild, 4, and Astrid, 3, were the only bridesmaids. Marie of Rumania, to everyone's relief, did not come...
...since last February, when his crag-climbing father slipped and fell to Death, has young King Leopold climbed an Alp. Last week, with the impatient winter sap of born Alpinists boiling in their veins, wavy-haired King Leopold and his svelte Swedish consort Astrid set out for their favorite Swiss mountaineering resort amid nationwide Belgian alarm...