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...Palmer House Hotel was built, the castle was built in 1885. Thence Mrs. Palmer ruled as absolute empress of society; her invitations an accolade, a command. At the World's Fair, she was hostess to the Infanta Eulalie of Spain; Duke and Duchess d'Aragona, descendants of Columbus; Princess Schahovska, Prince Cernoski, and Prince Isenberg of Russia. Mrs. Palmer summoned, too, Prince Henry of Prussia. Prince Henry was disdainful. "Is royalty to be guest of an innkeeper's wife?" Royalty was. Prince Henry came...
...last week, the King-Emperor slipped on his silk stockings, donned regal robes and with the Queen-Empress drove from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, where sit at their Parliamentary sessions the Lords & Commons...
Resplendently clad Peers and heavily robed bishops rose. In the galleries diamonded Peeresses stared, rustled, bowed. Lights blazed and kindled the darting iridescences of a thousand gems. No gem, however, burned more richly than the famous Cullinan Diamond which, as all could see, the Queen-Empress was wearing...
...Governor-General of the Union of South Africa is the Earl of Athene, brother of Queen-Empress Mary. When General Hertzog marched in with the collective resignation of the Cabinet, Her Majesty's brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social...
Rode before even the Tenno His Imperial Highness Prince Kanin, Honorary Executive of the Enthronement.* Came third the Empress, wearing an Occidental court gown of blue velvet, with large blue picture hat-her eyes cast modestly and fixedly down. The Tenno's brother, H.I.H. Chichibu, the heir presumptive, rode in a fourth carriage beside Princess Setsu, his bride. (TIME, Oct. 8). Brought up the Imperial rear, the Princes of the Blood, the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, great Admiral Togo, and hundreds of correspondents.* As the Imperial train of eleven chuffed out of Tokyo 101 guns boomed...