Word: astride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Albert of the Belgians announced the engagement of Leopold and Astrid last week in the usual formula-declared it "a love match ... a marriage of inclination...
Thus faced with a well-nigh desperate situation, Belgian royalty bethought itself of royal nieces. There was, for example, Princess Astrid, 20, robust daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergotland, a younger brother of scrawny King Gustaf V of Sweden. Recently it was decided that she would do very nicely...
Reported Engaged. Prince Leopold, 25, heir to the Belgian throne; to Princess Astrid of Sweden, 21, "prettiest Princess of Europe." She has been reported engaged to the Prince of Wales, Prince Olaf of Norway...
...which took him through Italy and on to a quiet Swiss resort. The Tsar is 32. During the two decades of his adolescence and manhood there have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown habituated to making itself ridiculous over Tsar Boris...
...Stockholm last week was published an official denial of the Olaf-Astrid fiancailles...