Word: empress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made to stand upon a small trap door, clad in the billowy skirts of the period. When the trap was sprung, the victim's clothing prevented her from falling completely through, but exposed her to the ministrations of two men with cat-o-nine-tails below. Thus the Empress Catherine could witness the agony of those whom she wished to punish without offending her gaze with the vulgar aspects of chastisement...
...palace gate was clattering a coach of gilt and glass. Above it the three golden genii of England, Scotland and Ireland supported replicas of the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword of State and the emblems of knighthood. Within the coach rode awfully the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress...
When the Queen-Empress returned from this function she found Baby Betty in a teething fret, with Nurse Knight attempting to sooth her. Three days later the Princess cut her first tooth...
...ambassadors, nobles, and army and navy officers to the number of 12,000 participated in the funeral, while two million commoners looked on. Pageant. At 4 p. m. the streets of Tokyo were closed to traffic of any sort. At 6 p. m. the present Emperor, Hirohito, the Dowager Empress and the three brothers of the Emperor, emerged from the Imperial Palace in their red and gold motors. All electricity was shut off, and in the gathering dusk thousands of lanterns winked and iron braziers flared along the funeral way. The hearse, 23 ft. long, 12 ft. high...
...Princess of Greece and Rumania, consort of the abdicated Prince Carol. The boy was their five-year-old son, Mihail, now Crown Prince of Rumania. Carol has not returned to reside with them since November, 1925 when he left Rumania to attend the funeral of Alexandra, late Dowager Queen-Empress of Britain...