Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the officials of the Swedish consulate, Crown Prince Gustave Adolph will be awarded an honorary degree by Harvard when he and Princess Louise visit this country next spring...
Veteran of five wars, worried-looking Major-Gen. Sir Georqe John Younghus-band has for two decades lived in the Tower of London guarding Britain's crown jewels (intrinsic value: $30,000,000). He reported that two thieves had entered his Tower apartment, absconded with his radio...
...veiled in a heavy snowstorm and cut off by temporary failure of her radio the Regina Maria was unmercifully buffeted. Two feet of water flooded the stateroom of the Crown Prince, and the violent wind snapped off one of the destroyer's masts., For 36 hours the Regina Maria bucked and plunged, water even in her engine room, spray frozen on her. Her crew got neither food nor sleep. "Can't I do something to help?" asked the nauseated Crown Prince...
Finally rescue ships found the Regina Maria, towed her back to the great Rumanian port of Constantsa. For hours special trains had been standing with steam up at Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...
Divorced. Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, hemophilic former Crown Prince of Spain; by dark Marta Rocafort, his second Cuban wife within a year; in Havana...