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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preference for Daimlers dates from the purchase of a one-cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...native royal line of Norway-and finally declared the present dynasty hereditary. To Oslo with King Haakon VII came the Princess he had married in 1896, the youngest (third) daughter of His Majesty Edward VII, British King and Emperor, to reign as inconspicuous and reserved but very popular Queen Maud of Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Royal Wedding | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Thus last week nothing could have been more appropriate than the arrival at Oslo of Britain's tall Duke and plump Duchess of York in the quality of wedding guests. "Hello, Aunt Maud," said the Duke, and Her Majesty responded graciously, "Welcome to Norway, Albert." En route from London the British royalties passed incognito through Germany and achieved the first visit to Berlin ever made by a member of the House of Windsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Royal Wedding | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18-year-old daughter of the Marquis of Douro, and rumored fiancée of Edward of Wales (TIME, Dec. 10), suffered a relapse of her prolonged pneumonia last week. During His Royal Highness' recent tour of British Africa, he received radio bulletins in code concerning Lady Anne's condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crown | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...call himself "King David"* might properly have pondered what his future is to be. Not much longer will the Empire rest content that he is without wife or heir. One may, with propriety, assume that last week the thoughts of David of Windsor turned repeatedly upon Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18, dark eyed and blooming daughter of the Marquis Douro, direct descendant of the great Duke of Wellington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: David to George V | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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