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...Buckingham to Westminster?from the residence of the sovereign to the assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke of Clarence), elevated his younger brother George from...
Anastasia. At Berlin the Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...
...Potsdam 74-year-old General Cixt von Arnim opened proceedings incident to the unveiling of a War monument, as follows: "I have the high honor, which His Majesty the Emperor and King entrusted to me, to dedicate this memorial to the Guard Regiment of the Empress Augusta Victoria. . . . The chief duty for us all is the fulfillment of our duty and loyalty to the articles of war and the oath to the flag which we swore to His Majesty...
...England went His Royal Highness Prince Chichibu-no-miya Yasuhito, second son of the Emperor and Empress. The object of the Prince's visit is to study social science at Oxford and the London School of Economics...
...EDUCATION). She remembered the first steam engine and the first balloon. She remembered the days when children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great Victoria, Queen and Empress, go to her last rest and, 64 years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William IV. And in 1830, at the age of 5-two years after she had mastered the little hieroglyphics that are the alphabet-she remembered donning...