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Since the Emperor & Empress are young & strong, their guests waited confidently in the rain, Britishers recalling that at Buckingham Palace garden parties Their Majesties have marquees run up in case of bad weather, receive with undiminished graciousness under canvas. Last week Tokyo flunkies rushed about the palace garden in jittery excitement while guests huddled under trees. It kept on raining and Their Majesties simply did not appear. With an estimated $200,000 worth of silken kimonos sodden and streaked, Japanese socialites slipped quietly away, but most foreign guests as they departed made audible remarks...
Into bustling little Lourdes in the French Pyrenees last week moved a vast throng of pious folk including 60 members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, silver-helmeted Vatican guards, healthy pilgrims and ailing pilgrims, devout European socialites, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, and that Blackest of Catholic nobles, ex-Empress Zita of Austria bringing her boy Otto, Archduke pretender. In Lourdes 77 years ago, Catholics believe, a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Bernadette is now of the blessed company of saints (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933) and the Grotte de Massabielle, scene of the apparition...
Apart from his public capacity, Banker Bark had been for years the adviser in private financial matters of King George's aunt, the late beauteous Empress of All the Russias Marie Feodorovna. sister of Britain's Queen Alexandra. Escaping to England after the Revolution, the Tsarist banker has prospered, today is Managing Director of the Anglo-International Bank. Said freshly-knighted Sir Peter Bark significantly: "My knighthood was conferred as a personal order from the King...
...Australia. Last week he watched a special train draw in from Portsmouth, carrying Gloucester up from the Australian battle cruiser Australia which had just delivered him safely home to England. After an absence of seven months, Gloucester's respectful first move was to try to kiss the Queen-Empress' hand but his mother advanced, welcomed him with a majestic hug & kiss. That night King George conferred upon Gloucester the grand cross of the honorary order of St. Michael and St. George...
...Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died, his heir Rudolf supposedly by his own hand, his wife by a shoemaker's awl in the hand of an assassin. The War finally killed...