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...Empress of Australia churned steadily across the Atlantic, last week carrying to Quebec T.H.R. Edward of Wales and his youngest brother Prince George, together with Premier & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and a joint retinue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Canada | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Mount of Olives, not far from where Jesus the Christ ascended to Heaven, there now stands Government House, the residence of the British High Commissioner, an imposing structure built originally asr the Empress Augusta Victoria Hospice (hotel). The British, easygoing, have left unmolested a pair of astonishing mural paintings in the Chapel. One depicts God the Father. The other, directly opposite and much more imposing in composition, was painted to display in trailing Biblical robes of glory The All Highest, Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palestine Portents | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Empress Hermine," as many Germans call this Princess in her own right, modestly occupied last week only four rooms of the old palace: bedroom, boudoir, sitting-room, bath. As a small earnest of Wilhelm II's great wealth, Princess Hermine brought with her two Mercedes automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Empress into Palace | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Hermine Calls | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

Queen Emma and "Empress" Hermine communed in mutual audience for something over an hour. The call was of significance because it served to focus the world's eye momentarily once again upon Queen Emma, the resolute onetime Princess of Waldeck.Pyrmont who, at 21, by a single bold stroke, secured for herself elevation to the dignity of Queen of the Netherlands beside 62-year-old King William III, justly known as the "Dutch Don Juan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Hermine Calls | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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