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...Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby is not a name like Rosie Rosenberg. His father was private secretary to the late great Victoria, Queen and Empress, who made "dear little Arthur" her pageboy. From knee breeches and gold lace Mr. Ponsonby grew up to be a Liberal politician, but his conscientious objection to the World War caused him to be ostracised by all his friends and he was forced into the Labor Party. Last week, as one of the staunchest intimates of the Prime Minister, Mr. Ponsonby, M. P., was created Baron...
...Granddaughter, of course, of "Big Vickie," first British Empress...
Reactionary Hungary prepared for a step back 74 years last week. 1855. In her gilded coach the young, radiant, newlywed Empress Elizabeth rode out from the Imperial Hofburg, heard frightful screams from a nearby barracks square. They were men's screams. "Stop! Call the guard!" cried the Empress. "Something terrible is happening!'' "Your Majesty need experience no alarm," soothed a punctilious equerry. "This is merely the hour for flogging military delinquents." Flashing-eyed, the petite Empress insisted on alighting from her coach. Amid courtier consternation she actually walked the short distance back to the Hofburg, rushed impulsively...
Born. To their Imperial Majesties Empress Nagako and Emperor Hirohito of Japan; a third daughter; at Tokyo...
Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...