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Perhaps the only downright disparaging remark England's Queen-Empress Mary is known to have uttered was her icy observation, four years ago, that the Queen of a certain Balkan state, who was then touring the U. S., ought to go to Hollywood and remain there. Queen Marie is Queen Mary's husband's second cousin...
...Empress of Abyssinia, impotent little Zauditu, died soon after she received news of her consort's death. The real ruler of Abyssinia, whose puppet poor Zauditu was, is the Negus or "King" Taffari. He said that Zauditu died of "shock...
...Switzerland, a physician named Dr. Alexandre Garabedian who has been exposing certain Abyssinian matters before a committee of the League of Nations, said last week that when he was court physician to the Empress Zauditu, her nephew King Taffari twice asked him to poison...
...Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit...
...Everyone remembers that Alexandra was the daughter of a petty prince who by a fluke became King of Denmark, and that she used to scrimp and help her sister make dresses before the latter became the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first cousin, the Duchess of Teck...