Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Philip, son of Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia, youngest sister of the present Emperor of Doorn, has been in love with the tall, handsome Italian Princess for some years, but the Italian King and Queen have steadfastly opposed the marriage because the Prince is a Protestant and the Princess a Catholic. There were obviously other reasons. The intervention on behalf of the lovers by Princess Yolanda, who is happily married to Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, allegedly overcame their Majesties' scruples and the marriage is to take place. The date was not mentioned...
...England went His Royal Highness Prince Chichibu-no-miya Yasuhito, second son of the Emperor and Empress. The object of the Prince's visit is to study social science at Oxford and the London School of Economics...
This is the first time in the history of Japan that a son of an Emperor has ever sought learning in a foreign land, although numbers of the aristocracy have recently done...
...centuries, the Royal Family was relegated to complete seclusion by the powerful shoguns. Never did an Emperor appear outside the four walls of his palace and it was a crime to look upon him, so sacred was his person. With the Emperor Meiji, all that was changed and, for the first time in probably a thousand years, an Emperor spoke face to face with his subjects. Today, matters have progressed still farther and the Prince Regent, Hirohito, has gone far to democratize the Royal Family...
...Harlem Cabaret, where Othello, Emperor Jones, Al Jolson and other famed characters take part...