Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students of probability guessed "No," but recalled that Victoria received the crown upon the death of her father, fourth son of George III, although two of her father's younger brothers were then living...
...coronation ceremony began, Shapur (Crown Prince) Mehenien Reza Pahlavi, a stocky child who has been granted a civil list of $2,000,000 a year, entered the throne room and walked with dignity to a stance at the right of the throne...
...former court jeweler of Wilhelm II confessed to the police that the crown was brought to him in a leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm...
...jeweler expressed his belief that when Hermine and Wilhelm were married (1920), she was secretly crowned Kaiserin of Germany, by which title she is said to be addressed at Doom. The detectives, having pondered well this tale, reflected that it brought them no nearer to recovering the crown, which was originally seized by the provisional government after the Kaiser's flight from Germany...
...gladdened to receive from Oriental couriers a picture framed in solid gold encrusted with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil list equivalent...