Word: empress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rain poured. Nineteen guns boomed. The Empress of Scotland docked at Quebec last week bearing Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, the new Governor General of Canada (TIME, June...
...Baron and Baroness Byng sailed from Quebec on the Empress of France, the newly appointed Governor General, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon (TIME, June 21), embarked with Lady Willingdon at Southampton on the Empress of Scotland. Meanwhile Mr. King had formed the following Cabinet...
...present Emperor and Empress continued their studies with energy during the entire period when they were Crown Prince and Princess. He dutifully attended the Imperial Diet. She busied herself with the Japanese Red Cross...
...Queen-Empress Mary arose one morning last week at York Cottage, set off on foot across the fields to Sandringham. "By rights," Sandringham, the Norfolk country seat of British royalty, should have passed to the present sovereigns upon their accession (1910). As a matter of record, the late Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra (TIME, Nov. 30) clung so tenaciously to what she deemed her ipso facto rights that she was with difficulty persuaded to quit Buckingham Palace, and virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred...
Recently Abyssinia, last native state in Africa to survive undominated by one or more of the Great Powers, protested to the League Secretariat (TIME, Aug. 9, ABYSSINIA) that Great Britain and Italy have concluded a mutual agreement for exploiting certain Abyssinian territories in defiance of the Empress Zauditu of Abyssinia...