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...MAJESTY ELIZABETH - Marie Louise, Countess Larisch von Wallersee- Wittelsbach- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Another royal testimonial, this one about the late Empress of Austria...
...debts kept him out of Britain most of his life. In 1818 he married the sister of Leopold I of Belgium. His greatest service to his country occurred when he became the father of a pale and proper little girl who grew up to be Victoria, Queen of England, Empress of India, Defender of the Faith. Last week King George quickly let the new Duke of Kent understand that he must work for his title. Hardly had the great-great-grandson of the last Duke opened the motor show than it was announced that George of Kent and not Edward...
...finish a 500-lb. copper and bronze coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius...
...King-Emperor and Queen-Empress recoiled, but, after all, it turned out to be quite an occasion. ¶ At Balmoral was held the Gillies' Ball, for the 270 footmen, housemaids, gamekeepers, beaters and guides of the estate. With seven pipers skirling "Hielan' Ladie," the royal party entered the great hall. Over her jeweled gown Queen Mary wore a taffeta shoulder sash of Royal Stuart tartan. In the musicians' gallery was King George's favorite dance orchestra, Mrs. Annie Shand's Band from Aberdeen, which has played at every servants' ball at Balmoral since...
Last week the same lady, now Queen-Empress of Britain, went to John Brown's dockyards on the Clyde for another launching. On the ways rested what will eventually be the biggest ship ever built in Britain, a 34,000-ton half-finished hull known until last week only as No. 534. (TIME, Oct. 1). Standing in puddles in the pouring rain, a vast crowd saw Queen Mary press a button that started the hull down the ways. At the same moment Her Majesty smashed a bottle of Australian Burgundy against No. 534 and cried: "I am happy...