Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...didn't want to be a Queen," she insisted whenever a reigning monarch or the crown prince of an empire was proposed, as her future husband. Disturbed, her father cast a piercing Italian glance after his daughter as she strolled, one afternoon at Bordighera, with a tall blond young man whom King Vittorio thought he recalled having seen before...
...More than once, he expressed a deep-seated aversion to having his body rest in the earth. Only his family and a few of his closest friends knew this, but it was that feeling on his part that caused the family to place his body in the chapel at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, where it now rests. . . "I am convinced that a sufficient number of supporters of the idea will be found in the United States to erect a tomb where his body may hest throughout the years...
...there is any Prince in Europe whom one would expect to regale his countrymen with travelogs, it would be the Prince of Wales. Yet it was not he but Louis Ferdinand, second son of the quondam Crown Prince, of Germany who appeared last week in a little church at Potsdam to describe "for the benefit of a few friends" a recent trip he took to Spain...
...Chamberlain forgotten that Hongkong-"place of the sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...
King Gustav, after opening the conference (TIME, Aug. 31) paid a brief visit to Finland. Returned, he, the Crown Prince who is most religious, and the Crown Princess continued to attend the sessions...