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Unworn Crown. Pious Jugoslavs, shivering bareheaded in the chilling rain, prayed aloud in unison as the stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
When the London Evening Standard ran a contest this autumn to discover a better name for Nova Pilbeam, some of the answers were Beryl Beamstar, Nova Cinemata, June, Dawn, and Marina Pilbeam. She decided to retain her own name, which she considers less whimsical than Myrna Loy or Greta Garbo. Her father is Arnold Pilbeam, for the last 15 years stage manager for the late Sir Nigel Playfair...
Younger sons of the King of England are technically commoners. It was a foregone conclusion, as soon as the engagement of Prince George to handsome Princess Marina of Greece was announced, that he would follow his older brothers, York and Gloucester, into the Peerage. The great question was what title would be given him. Two famed royal dukedoms were vacant-Edinburgh and Kent. Last week by letters patent George V ordered that his youngest son be proclaimed Duke of Kent forthwith. Kent, whence come the hops to make British beer bitter, was a Kingdom long before William the Conqueror. There...
Prince Paul, his 41-year-old cousin whose wife is the sister of the Duke of Kent's Princess Marina...
...Seldom has any hotel sheltered so much royalty as the Paris Ritz that night. On the register were Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, Princess Ileana and her husband Archduke Anton of Habsburg, Infante Alfonso of Spain, Grand Duke Cyril of Russia and his son Prince Vladimir, Princess Marina of Greece. Mr. & Mrs. Johnson of Pembina, N. Dak. complained of the service...