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...Field. Miss Howard waited patiently for fulfillment of the imperial promises. Instead, one day the Emperor begged his "dear and faithful Harriet" to undertake a special embassy to England. Trustful Miss Howard got as far as Le Havre where, stormbound overnight, she opened a newspaper and read an official announcement of Louis' betrothal to Spain's Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents...
Miss HOWARD AND THE EMPEROR (224 pp.)-Simone Andre Maurois-Knopf...
...financed his exile's finaglings and plottings. When Louis Philippe was deposed and France became a republic again, Miss Howard followed her lover to Paris, backed his successful campaign to make himself President. In 1852, after "throwing everything she possessed into the fray," she heard her Louis proclaimed Emperor...
Good Name at Last. Empress Eugenie so detested sex ("disgusting," she said) that the Emperor reportedly continued for some time to find reconciliation upon the broad fields of Beauregard. But as time passed, the "countess" (her title was never confirmed) devoted more and more of her life to good works, flowers and tapestry. For convenience sake she married an Englishman named Trelawny, thus acquiring at last a good name, but still, out of old habit, using phony ones. She died in 1865-and her tombstone carries incorrect dates...
...muse hung airy as a blimp over Tokyo's Imperial Palace, where a top event of Japan's literary season, the annual poetry party, went into its lyrical finale. Seated before a huge golden screen, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako harkened approvingly to verse by 15 finalists chosen from a record 17,238 entrants trying their hand at the formal 31-syllable waka. Then they listened solemnly while their own poems were read. The imperial family does not compete in the contest itself, this year featuring the subject of "Clouds." Hirohito's effort, read five times...