Word: astride
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...robed royal obstetrician produced a fine, pink 7 Ib. Prince. Not a Crown Prince, for Their Majesties already had a three-year-old-son, slim little Baudoin who embarrassed his parents while the King was being sworn in by slipping off his big arm chair and climbing into Queen Astrid's lap (TIME, March...
Born, To Queen Astrid of the Belgians and King Leopold III; a second son, Albert; in Laeken...