Word: empresse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accounts for the World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander Edmund, wearing the smart full-dress of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy...
Soon Mr. Baldwin began to chat: "It is 37 years since I was here before. Then I did not come on a magnificent ship such as the Empress of Australia, but on the old Alaska...
From Calgary the Baldwins would proceed to the smart resort at Banff, Alberta; and thence return through Calgary to Winnipeg, whence they would speed through Ottawa a second time and finally board the Empress of Scotland at North Sydney...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
...Empress of Australia churned steadily across the Atlantic, last week carrying to Quebec T.H.R. Edward of Wales and his youngest brother Prince George, together with Premier & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and a joint retinue...