Word: empress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method of demonstration and of proof adopted by Queen-Empress Victoria's onetime Page of Honor is to range widely and exhaustively over the material of post-War documents and disclosures, culling testimony from the very statesmen under whom the War lies were forged and used as deadly weapons. Citing chapter and verse, page and line, Laborite Ponsonby produces the following five "proofs" of his above five assertions...
Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London...
...Pompous, perennially frock-coated Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks incurred the ire of Her Majesty the Queen-Empress, last week, and received a rebuke from the London Times...
There the Emperor Napoleon sent the Empress Josephine to pass a quiet spell. Later her very room was occupied by M. Paul Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet...
Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...