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...side of the globe and diked-in little Holland had both tuned every available radio set to hear the Royal Family broadcast officially how they all felt about the engagement of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Doctor of Philosophy and honorary Doctor of Letters, to Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederic Eberhard Jules Curt Charles Godfrey Peter von Lippe-Biesterfeld, a sportsmanly apprentice employed without pay by the colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. It was in 1916 that the reigning Prince...
...stated in your article that the Duchess of Elchingen, at No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, relict of Michel Ney. who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's ancestor was buried in the U. S. . . . This beautiful lady, who married a blood relation of Marshal Ney, is sadly mistaken. In 1902 Rev. W. A. Sadtier published a book, Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal...
...Kent, with his elegant, dashing Greek wife Marina. In a unique tribute to this pair last week newsorgans of Sydney, Australia urged that if the King can not come to the 1938 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of that Commonwealth, he should send the Duke and Duchess of Kent and they should bring with them Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who may some day be England's Queen Elizabeth...
Clever Marina was credited in London with having something more immediate in mind last week. Beauteous as herself are her kinswomen, the two sisters of King George II of Greece. The Duchess was apparently resolved that these eligible Princesses, Irene and Catherine, shall meet bachelor King Edward on his holiday. In Athens the newsorgan Patris flatly declared that the engagement of His Majesty to one or the other of Their Royal Highnesses "will soon be announced." The Princesses were en route to the idyllic isle of Corfu where King George II was said to anticipate entertaining King Edward...
...Leaving their baby son Prince Edward with his nurse in England, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent flew to Paris for a seven-week holiday on the Continent...