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Prayed over the Grand Ducal bier, last week, the Archimandrite Theodosius of the Greek Orthodox (old Russian) Church...
...German citizens of Baden never ceased to cheer His Grand Ducal Highness, when he rode out among them, palsied and almost blind. Once he wore the uniform of Commanding General of the German Eighth Army Corps; but at the close of the War he was among the first petty rulers of German states to abdicate in favor of Democracy...
...mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity, admirable restraint, the Morning Post permitted itself to observe: "We dislike the current journalistic practice of boring and bewildering readers with intimate details of the business and management of newspapers." But it overcame its dislike manfully, brought itself to quote its own sales figures: August...
Last week despatches told that Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, had been besought to give Zubkov sanctuary. She had received, it was said, a personal and impassioned plea from the doting wife who is, after all, the sister of a onetime German Emperor. Would Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, sympathize with Princess Victoria...
...Trematon, 20, nephew of British Queen-Empress Mary; at Lyons, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Württemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge...