Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year or two ago there died an old lady, the daughter of Leopold I, king of the Belgians. The world at large took no great notice of her death. For nearly 60 years she had lived in seclusion, her mind deranged through a great tragedy...
Three sizzling reindeer steaks were set last week before three very lean and perhaps hungry royal uncles: the kings of Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had come to Stockholm earlier in the week with his parents King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. The host and hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vasterg...
...Nuptial Rejoicings. Crown Prince Leopold, who has several times visited Stockholm unrecognized, by traveling third class and entering the apartment of Prince Carl by the back way, strolled about the city last week with Princess Astrid on his arm, to the vast delight of cheering Swedes. On the day before their wedding the couple met at 7 a.m. to begin with a brisk horseback ride a day which closed with a state dinner at the Palace and a gala in their honor at the Royal Opera...
...dais ordinarily occupied by the Throne stood that arch-Socialist Carl Lindhagan, Mayor of Stockholm, famous because he introduces before the Swedish Parliament every year a bill to abolish the Monarchy. He it was whom astute King Gustaf had chosen to perform the civil marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood before him he pronounced...
...Leopold Auer, 81, unrivaled violin teacher: "Like my friend, Pianist Hofmann, I have just become a U. S. citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...