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...being printed the Queen drove out in her regal Daimler. The chauffeur bowled along at moderate pace through a middle-class section of London and presently Queen Mary inspected through her lorgnette the still smoking ruins of the $10,000,000 Crystal Palace on which Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert lavished so much care when preparing the Great Exhibition...
...earth should not the King marry an American if he wants?" roars Colonel Wedgwood. "This crisis to my mind is an insult to the United States! What is it that makes an American inferior to a German?"-i. e., the Prince Consort Albert or Queen Mary, whose girlhood title was Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion...
...King Edward's most intimate friends state with the utmost positiveness that he is very deeply and sincerely enamored of Mrs. Simpson, that his love is a righteous affection, and that almost immediately after the Coronation he will take her as his consort...
Ideally suited to rule The Netherlands, Juliana was considered last week to be wisely marrying for love a prince who has not enough position or prestige to arouse in Dutch breasts the animosity risked by a Prince Consort from a foreign land who must always be more or less suspect of trying to influence his wife and Queen. For undertaking cheerfully this thankless role Prince Benno, by act of the Dutch Parliament, is expected to be invested on his marriage with the rank of Prince of The Netherlands and allotted the modest civil list as Prince Consort...
...thick-legged heiress to the throne of the Netherlands; and Prince Bernard of Lippe of Germany, 25, lawyer, employe of the German dye trust, nephew of Prince Leopold IV. Since she reached her majority no more burning issue has Holland had than the question of wholesome Juliana's consort...