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...Edward John Stanley, 10, is a scion of the great English families of Montague and Villiers. He stands to inherit the Earldom of Derby from his grandfather. He knows that the Countess Derby, his grandmother, is Bedchamber Woman to Queen-Empress Mary...
Momentously the Queen-Empress was indisposed. She was stricken last week, as was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, with a stay-a-bed cold. Therefore two records were set: 1) Mrs. Coolidge, for the first time in her husband's administration, absented herself from a White House social function; and 2) Queen-Empress Mary, for the first time in her consort's reign, did not accompany His Majesty when he rode forth to open Parliament...
Beneath the end of the slide wavelets rippled and laughed. Into them plunged, stern first, the Duchess of Bedford, with all the emphasis of her 20,000 tons. She is the second "Duchess" ship to be built for Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., now famed for its "Empress'' ships. First of the new series was the Duchess of Atholl. Came to her recent launching Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl. Hers was the christening bottle. She tended and swung it with the gracious assurance of a stateswoman, for she is now Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, a post...
Martinique. Another French colony. Birthplace of the Empress Josephine, consort of Napoleon...
Meanwhile the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress sojourned amid huge drifts of country snow, at Sandringham. George V was known to have telegraphed his Keeper of the Swans certain instructions as to their wintry care...