Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because not even the Baldwin Cabinet's best friends could believe that healthy Queen Elizabeth would not be able to come smiling through a dozen Coronations and Durbars if required, correspondents were obliged to question the India Office closely. What about Sir Alexander Hardinge, the King's Private Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME...
...equal of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in effortless daily discharge of endless public duties has for years been the Empire's popular "Smiling Duchess," that aboundingly healthy Scotswoman who is now Queen-Empress Elizabeth. Suddenly last week His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, announced that new King George had told him the scheduled Coronation Durbar at New Delhi cannot take place next winter for reasons having to do with Queen Elizabeth's "health." The official announcement voiced vague "hope" that in some other year the Durbar of George & Elizabeth...
...disordered is the brain of shaggy James Maxton, humorous near-communist (with a small "c") and most picturesque figure in the small Independent Labor Party. Smilingly he twitted His Majesty's Government for providing that Princess Elizabeth, 10, heir apparent to the Throne, shall come of age at 18. "If the duties to be performed are responsible duties, then the appropriate age is the age recognized in all other walks of life-the age of full manhood, of 21 or over," said Laborite Maxton...
...Oldster Pauline Frederick as Empress Elizabeth and Oldster Dudley Digges as Franz Joseph went full critical praise and a welcome back to the stage from the films. Henry Hull and Margo, the lovers at Mayerling, split honors with Playwright Anderson for an historical episode bursting with strength and bravery, so true that it should have happened even...
...knowing Viscount & Viscountess St. Davids bestowed the gift supreme: 24 volumes of the Blood Stock Breeders Review. In the friendly atmosphere of English tenantry toward their Duke no less than 94 ash trays and 61 lamps came in, along with the presents of Queen Mother Mary, King George & Queen Elizabeth, for as Burke's Peerage says: "The Ducal and illustrious Howards stand, next to the Blood Royal, at the head of the Peerage of England...