Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greeks last week painted a wheezing steam locomotive pure white, "the bridal color." They shined up a train of cars, screwed onto each a Greek crown in electric lights. Chuffing off went tall, fair, handsome Crown Prince Paul, 36, brother of Greece's George II, and traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some...
...palace at Bucharest, King Carol of Rumania, hearing that the weather had turned foul, anxiously wirelessed Commander Gika Dimutriscu of his destroyer Regina Maria (named after his mother, Queen Marie). Aboard the Regina Maria was his son, Crown Prince Mihai, bound for Athens and the wedding of Crown Prince Paul of Greece (see p. 26), where his mother, divorced Queen Helen, was waiting...
While Europe's merriest royal couple- Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup-spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English...
...proud are Netherlander that their Crown Princess is about to become a mother that thousands of loyal subjects sent each other Christmas cards on which a stork with a child is seen entering the gates of the Royal Palace...
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 30, heir apparent of Crown Prince Friedrich William of Germany, one-time automechanic in a Detroit Ford plant, now employed by .Lufthansa German airline; to Princess Kyra Kirillowna, 28, daughter of Russian Grand Duke Cyril; in Doom, The Netherlands...