Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the War, touring the U. S. with his parents, Crown Prince Leopold greatly surprised correspondents on the royal special train by his democratic willingness to play poker, surprised them still further by quietly trimming them most of the time, always refused to say who taught him the game-a suspect being General Pershing...
Dowagers and daughters found that the 17-year-old Crown Prince would answer any question addressed to him, and that was all. Not until he was several years older did he wake up and start courting in his own way Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid.* Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel...
...thoroughly was Leopold III prepared to mount the throne, he had shown as Crown Prince, partly by serving as an active member of the Belgian Senate and partly by preparing for his father a series of comparative reports on colonial administration in the Belgian Congo, British India, The Netherlands Indies, the Philippines and French Indo-China. It was not simply that Leopold and Astrid "inspected" or showed "interest" on their travels. The Crown Prince everywhere took copious notes of the replies made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself...
...Niece of the King of Sweden, sister-in-law of the Crown Prince of Norway, niece of the King of Denmark...
Failing eyesight and mental depression broke his health. The Crown, anxious to honor him, offered him an earldom last May, but Scot MacDonald turned it down lest it crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor...