Word: empresse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position in Washington], I manage my onetime husband's large estates in Biltmore, N. C. Since my marriage to Senator Gerry of Rhode Island I go to the Capitol almost half as much as Mrs. Longworth. At balls I have heard it whispered that I dress like an empress...
...Lascelles is 44, and still awaiting the death of his father, the Earl of Harewood, 80, sound as a cudgel. Though the King-Emperor often hunts with the Earl of Harewood, His Majesty almost never visits Goldsborough Hall, the estate of Lord Lascelles and Princess Mary. When the Queen-Empress goes there it is noticed, moreover, that Lord Lascelles is usually away. From this state of affairs springs the suspicion, now current in court circles, that Viscount Lascelles pointedly" resents the King-Emperor's neglect in not raising his rank since his marriage to Princess Mary...
Thus they paid homage to a lady great in sadness, Marie Charlotte Amelie Augustine Victoire Clementine Leopoldine, daughter of the late King Leopold I of the Belgians, once Empress of Mexico. Her story: At 17 she was the radiant bride of the Archduke Maximilian whose brother was Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary; at 23 Empress of Mexico, set beside Maximilian upon that throne by the Emperor Napoleon III of the French; at 26 a distracted woman, kneeling before Napoleon III, begging him to deliver her husband from the revolted Mexicans, crying when Napoleon III declared he could...
...lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...
Died. Charlotte, 86, "Empress of Mexico"; at The Chateau Buchont, near Brussels...