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...Certain Conflict. Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, for 26 years Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, was not always so beloved among her subjects. For all that she had been born in England, a cousin of Queen Victoria and a great-granddaughter of George III, the shy, penniless German Princess who in 1893 married the future George V, then Duke of York, was not welcomed with open arms. British sentiment was affronted by the fact that she had previously been affianced to the Duke's elder brother, heir presumptive to Victoria's throne...
...friends in high places all around the world. Franklin Roosevelt died on the eve of a scheduled appointment in which Lieut. Commander Fairbanks, U.S.N.R., was to have explained a plan to smuggle Doug and Allied agents by submarine into Japan, there to get in touch with the Dowager Empress (an old Fairbanks friend) and thus end the war. "The only way to plan a combined operation peacefully," said one British admiral, "is to include Fairbanks in the project from the start...
Landowska's brown eyes still kindle in the ashes of her face at the mention of her "ghosts." This small empress in exile from her time has lived with them for most of her life. For her they are alive. And it is entirely conceivable that if one day her door should open, bringing a visitor named J. S. Bach into her instrument-cluttered, timeless room, Wanda Landowska would not so much as lift her bird's-wing eyebrows in surprise. She would probably continue the conversation she has been having with him across the strings...
Married. Archduke Felix of Habsburg, 36, third son of Emperor Charles I and Empress Zita, last rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire; and German Princess Anna Eugenie of Arenberg, 27; in 1) a civil ceremony, and 2) a Roman Catholic ceremony witnessed by the ex-Empress Zita, Archduke Otto, pretender to the throne, and 200 of Europe's rich and royal; in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France...
...dairy farmer and son of the former Marquis Ikeda, who gave up his title after World War II; in Tokyo. The Princess' marriage to a commoner stripped her of an annual 650,000 yen ($1,800) royal allowance. The Emperor was in bed with a cold but the Empress, with 30 members of the royal family, attended the ancient and austere Shinto ceremony...