Word: grandmama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the tragic Other Grandmama was reported to spend most of her days reclining and dozing in her small, sunny Florentine garden and most of her evenings with a faithful lady-in-waiting who reads and rereads the New Testament...
...only the report had concerned King Mihai's other grandmama it would have been news...
...Other Grandmama does not endorse face creams, hair nets, whatnots. She is not photographed. Obscure and lonely, she lives in a small villa near Florence, forgotten, poor, and seldom addressed as "Your Majesty...
Once the Other Grandmama's eldest brother was called King, Kaiser and All Highest War Lord. She has been wife to one king and mother to two; but now, when she rides out in Florence, no one cries, "Look! There goes the Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece. The Kaiser's sister...
When the Rumanian Government of Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano had had two days, last week, in which to dissuade Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania from a second U. S. tour, the Famed Grandmama announced, through a lady-in-waiting, that: "Certain premature reports of Her Majesty's plans are totally unfounded...