Word: maud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess, advocated female suffrage-energetic traits which she inherited from her Danish mother, the dazzling and haughty British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of still more dazzling, still more imperious Marie Feodorovna, Empress of All The Russias. The two Empresses were resolved that Maud should become at least a queen- of what...
...Danish warship a young man darned his own socks, sewed on his own buttons. The two Empresses did not think much of him, though he was their nephew and a prince. But his cousin Tomboy Maud, against her mother's council, fell in love with him, and with her father's encouragement married him July 22, 1896. He was then promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Danish Royal Navy...
Seemingly headstrong Princess Maud had thrown away the many chances she had had to marry onto a Throne-but the Norns of Norway were busy weaving her Fate, ably assisted by foxy Edward VII. (He liked his daughter Maud as much as he disliked his daughter-in-law Mary...
...people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted against him. He was proclaimed King of Norway just 25 years ago last week, changing his name from Carl...
...Oslo last week King Haakon and Queen Maud had among their Jubilee guests his elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark; and Prince George, youngest son of her brother King-Emperor George V. Beginning with a simple, solemn Lutheran service in Our Saviour's Church, the Jubilee became joyous as Their Majesties left the church amid a rousing 21-gun salute, clattered off to the Palace where King Haakon addressed his people and all Scandinavia by radio...