Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in 1914 two royal matchmakers-Nicholas II, last Tsar of All the Russias, and Marie, then Rumania's British-born Crown Princess-put their heads together and decided it would be nice for both their countries if Marie's elder son Carol and Nicholas' eldest daughter Olga were to marry. To push the romance along, Marie and her husband, Crown Prince Ferdinand, took Carol on a trip to Tsarkoye Selo, the Tsar's winter palace outside St. Petersburg, and later His Imperial Majesty & family visited the Rumanian royalty at Constantsa, on the Black...
...acres. After Versailles, democracy was on the wax in Europe and, notwithstanding Rumania's notorious balloting methods, a peasant leader named Juliu Maniu eventually won the premiership in 1929. When his reforms were further blocked by the Bratianu court clique, he conceived a plan to dethrone Mihai, crown Carol and get rid of Dowager Queen Marie and Prince Stirbey for good...
...gridders pushed a previously undefeated Dudley eleven all around the field last Thursday in handing them a 13 to 0 beating, and as Kirkland, the only other contender for the crown, was upset on the same afternoon by a surprising Bellboy eleven, the Puritans are far ahead of the rest of the field...
...Majesty, while busy with such grave matters of State, snatched time to give a birthday breakfast party at 8 a.m. to Crown Prince Mihai. Cake is sometimes eaten for breakfast in Rumania, and Mihai sat down to steaming coffee and a cake with 18 candles. He is thus of age and under the Rumanian Constitution automatically became a Senator, as do all crown princes of the Rumanian Royal Family on attaining their majority...
...Crown Prince, now that he is of age. will have a separate palace of his own for the first time, may possibly step out, but most people who know him well say that Senator Mihai is serious-minded to the point of boredom...