Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children in Bavaria. From neutral sources came a picture of the royal offspring, taken while they were still happily grouped on the grounds of the Palace of Laeken in Brussels (Josephine Charlotte, 16; Albert, 10; Alexandre Emmanuel, 2-Leopold's only child by his second wife, Marie; Crown Prince Baudouin...
Prospects. Great Britain, principal partner in all Arab enterprises in the Middle East, once looked favorably on the idea of Arab unity, which might have buttressed Arab loyalty to the Crown in the dark days when Rommel was at El Alamein. Now latest reports had it that the British approved only religious, cultural and economic ties, would frown on wartime political unions...
...hair shirt, the crown of poison ivy, the shame...
Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince, gave his three young daughters, Princesses Desiree, 6, Birgitta, 7, and Margaretha, 9, the biggest treat of all: the circus...
Dispatches from a neutral source of the German frontier pointed out an apt historical parallel: Kaiser Wilhelm II's celebrated meeting with his Crown Council in August 1918, when the German war lords of that day decided that bitter, drawn-out fighting might yet weary the Allies into granting a soft peace...