Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a new Queen Elizabeth now on the Throne-Chair next to the Throne, it was necessarily made official last week that Queen Mary is now "Mary, the Queen-Mother...
Neither King George nor Queen Elizabeth has lived a life in which any event could be called of public interest in the United Kingdom press and this last week was exactly as most of their subjects wished. In effect a Calvin Coolidge entered Buckingham Palace with Shirley Temple for his daughter...
...Exchange. The King sent to have read for him in Parliament an address in which he specifically promised "to uphold the honor of the realm." Her Majesty could not go to church and has been staying indoors with "influenza" for some time. Happy rumors rippled in London that Queen Elizabeth may have something better than influenza. His Majesty was always officially Albert (familiarly "Bertie") up to last week but Baldwin the Magnificent (see p. 17) was too cute to bring him on as anything except King George VI. England's notorious first "Four Georges" were justly flayed by Thackeray...
Neither as King Edward, nor later last week as Prince Edward, did the eldest son of the Royal House enter London. This idol of the British masses (for such His Majesty unquestionably was) vanished, and after a little space other idols (for such King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and crown princess Elizabeth will soon be) were substituted. The basic English truth which emerged is that the Kingdom long ago became and is today neither a democracy nor a monarchy but an efficient oligarchy, more or less benevolent. Its symbol is the Crown, but the really effective British crowns...
...began her singing lessons only two years ago, never heard an opera until this season. Said Betty Jaynes after reading her notices: ''Now I shall not go to school any more. I shall just sing and sing and sing." Preparing to join the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth Vandenberg, pretty, blonde daughter of Michigan's Republican Senator, gave a piano recital before Manhattan's Beethoven Association...