Word: crowning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hulking, ham-fisted persons who now & then take George V's crown & sceptre from the Tower of London and always put them back are unofficially "Beefeaters," officially the Yeomen of the Guard...
...their scarlet, gold-laced uniforms last week the Beefeaters carefully removed from the Tower not only the crown and the sceptre but a whole shop windowful of diamond-studded ornaments. Piling into motorcars they took these to St. James's Palace, guarded them during the night...
...TIME. Nov. 28). Also in Berlin, actively supporting the Hitler cause last week, was a close kinsman of British King-Emperor George V, none other than Duke Karl Eduard von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha who recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler was nevertheless unable last week to persuade President von Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor of the Reich...
...Restoration of the monarchy in Germany," charged M. Hymans, "is not merely a question of time. It is imminent. There is now delay only because of disagreement between the former Kaiser s sons and former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria as to how restoration should take place...
...Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage of his "subjects." Beside him rides "Her Majesty," Antoinette of Luxembourg and of Nassau, who was 21 when he married her in 1921. has borne him five children. The "Crown Prince'' is 27-year-old Albrecht, only child of Rupprecht's late first wife...