Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State visitors at Buckingham Palace for three days last week were Rumania's King Carol II and 17-year-old Crown Prince Mihai. In the years after Carol had divorced his wife and temporarily abandoned his throne to live in France with lissome, red-haired Magda Lupescu, daughter of a Jewish druggist, he was persona non grata to the British royal family. Queen Mary refused to have him in her house...
Peeved at having to return virtually emptyhanded, Carol and the Crown Prince canceled tentative plans for a longer private stay, headed back to Bucharest. On the way the King was expected to call on Chancellor Hitler and German economic experts, who will probably lose no time in reminding him that a recent German offer to develop Rumanian oil fields and purchase Rumania's entire wheat crop for the next two years, in exchange for German manufactured goods, still stands. But they have no money to lend...
...some days in a private capacity, King George VI was graciously pleased to confer membership in Britain's oldest chivalric order, the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Meanwhile another royal visitor. King Carol II of Rumania, accompanied by his 17-year-old son. Crown Prince Mihai, was scheduled to arrive this week in London for a four-day State visit. Following this the royal guests may spend another week on their own in England and Scotland...
...many was it news last week that a freckled, redheaded, 23-year-old son of a California laundryman had abdicated the throne of amateur tennis, had turned in his four-titled crown for $75,000 in cash. For the past two months it has been common knowledge that Donald Budge, champion of Australia, France, England and the U. S., would sign with Jack Harris (front man for Wilson Sporting Goods Co.) for an indoor barnstorming tour this winter. Last week the papers were signed. Starting January 3, Budge will display his talents opposite Ellsworth Vines in 70 U. S. cities...
...Born. To Crown Prince Paul of Greece, 36, younger brother of King George, and his wife, Princess Margaritas, 21, granddaughter of the former Kaiser: a daughter, their first child; in Athens...