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Reporters in Paris discovered the person answering classified ads for a job in Britain was none other than Princess Djavidan, widow of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, last hereditary King of Egypt. Said the ex-queen: "I used to have a whole country; now I look forward to a kitchen. I feel that with the British people I can start a new life more easily than with any other...
...dinner and dance at the Whip Club, which steamed along until 7 in the morning. The guests, as one of them put it, were "not only the cream of Roman society, but the cream of the cream." There was Vittoria Caetani, Dowager Duchess of Sermoneta, ex-lady in waiting to the ex-Queen of Italy. Her latest book, Sparkle Distant Worlds, is quite sad: "Now we began hearing of the first horrors of war, Poland invaded . . . a British passenger steamer sunk off the Hebrides . . . My last footman was called up and left to join the army." Writing...
Princess Wilhelmina, who abdicated last September as Queen of The Netherlands, finally got her pension approved by the Dutch parliament, which decided, despite grumbles from a guilder-minded minority, that 400,000 ($151,000) a year was not too much for an ex-queen who had given 50 years' service...
...Long live the Queen," shouted Princess Wilhelmina from the palace balcony when the ceremony was over. As the crowd below echoed the cheer, she threw her arms around her daughter and bussed her firmly. Juliana wept. A few minutes later, the ex-Queen left the balcony and the realm to her successor. In the square below, the crowd burst into the traditional anthem Up Orange! Some remembered to alter the last line to "Long Live Juliana!" Others went right on singing "Long Live Wilhelmina," as they had for 50 years...
Stolen from Yugoslavia's ex-Queen Marie, 48 (now studying sculpturing in London's arty Chelsea): $4,000 worth of jewels, including a diamond-studded clock...