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...they never wavered from adherence to the Allies and, as a result, Rumania was expanded by the peacemakers into the largest Balkan country. Thus King Ferdinand, although never a dynamic or very statesmanly monarch, was assisted to a great reward by his integrity of purpose, by his magnetic consort, "The Mother-in-Law of the Balkans," and by the powerful dynasty of Jon Bratiano which now overshadows royalty itself in Rumania...
...more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...
...Duke of Clarence was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck at the time of his death (1892), but in the succeeding year the Princess was married to Prince George, now King and Emperor. Chance interrupted the succession and brought to a young sailor prince his consort and his throne. How has Chance dealt with Gaston Doumergue...
George Henry Lewes, the lifelong lover and helper of the woman of genius, also has Miss Haldane's sympathy--"he did for George Eliot what the Prince Consort did for Queen Victoria." The reader is not surprised to learn that in spite of her unconventional marriage the novelist enjoyed the friendship and esteem of most of the other great ones of her time, and that when Lewes was ill a messenger enquired after his health from the court of Queen Victoria...
...down a long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew up before the withered wooden Palace. Straightway "Little Otto," a chubby sapling in a Byronic collar, handsome, frank of feature, stood bowing before Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and the Prince Consort, Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Though newsgatherers did not penetrate the inflexible reserve of the Grand Ducal Court, it became known that Prince Otto and his mother expected to remain only briefly at Luxembourg, and it was believed that they would shortly be permitted to return to Hungary- a return ardently...