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...With only a fortnight to go before Coronation, Lord Amherst's Sovereign and his consort last week took a state voyage down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last...
...jolly Princess, who used to make wry jokes about the thickness of her calves (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Last week portly matrons of The Hague dithered as the Crown Princess returned from her three-month honeymoon radiant and 23 lb. lighter. She and slim, sporting Prince Consort "Benno." who knows his way around Europe's swank pleasure spots, were said on their honeymoon to have "frequently eaten heartily, as both are fond of food, and wanted to try the delicacies of different countries." So perhaps it was pace which slimmed Princess Juliana, whose latest pictures show...
Honeymooning Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands arrived in Vienna last week and was entering the dining room of her hotel when she was unexpectedly stopped and embraced with friendly warmth by an Englishman, the Duke of Windsor. Later the Crown Princess was escorted by her Prince Consort to some of Vienna's mellow evening taverns, danced and sipped sour wine in one until 5 a. m. Meanwhile the Duke of Windsor said good-by to his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (TIME, Feb. 15), who returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when...
Crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was pretty Jessie Wing Janvier, daughter of Judge George Janvier of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, previously picked as Carnival Queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers and the Elves of Oberon. Her consort, Rex, Lord of Misrule, was President Albert Barnet Paterson of New Orleans Public Service...
...palace, 191 ft. long, 70 ft. wide, 60 ft. high. Business and civic groups selected beauteous stenographers, secretaries, sales girls as their "queens.'' Rudy Vallée, playing a week's orchestra engagement at St. Paul, was on hand to select from among them a consort for Carnival King Frank Madden, columnist on the St. Paul Dispatch...