Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premiers signed a message to the King-Emperor last week, which was received by George V amid the pomp of Buckingham Palace. The Premiers declared: "The foundation of our work has been the sure knowledge that to each of us, as to all Your Majesty's subjects, the Crown is the abiding symbol of the unity of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Dowager Empress' father was the all but penniless Prince Christian of Holstein-Glücksburg. During the Schlesvig-Holstein squabbles among the great powers the succession of Denmark was altered, and Christian became Crown Prince amid general astonishment (1852). Fortune's darling if ever mortal was, he not only became King Christian IX of Denmark but lived to see three of his children monarchs: King George I of Greece (reigned 1883-1913, assassinated 1913) ; Queen Empress Alexandra of Britain (reigned 1901-1910, died 1925); and the Empress Marie of Russia (reigned 1881-1894, aged at present...
Biographer Poliakov recreates with fine emotional skill the dramatic scene which resulted in a Danish Princess eventually becoming the Empress Marie. She, a blooming girl, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia (died 1865) had experienced for each other an undoubted and romantic mutual infatuation. Before they could be married he was stricken with paralysis. Brave, devoted, he called his fiancee and his brother Alexander to his deathbed and swore them to wed each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow...
Carol Sued. Queen Marie's oldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, was defended last week in Paris by potent Socialist barrister Paul Boncour against Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his former morganatic wife (TIME, March 15, 22), who began suit to establish the legitimacy of their son Mircea. By his consort, Princess Helene of Greece, Carol had subsequently another son, Prince Michel, now aged five, and heir apparent to the Rumanian throne...
Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden: "Crown Princess Louise and I learned while proceeding from Japan to India last week that our villa at Sofiero in the Duchy of Scania was entered recently by burglars who found that we had cannily removed to storage everything of value...