Word: maud
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...fundamental democracy of Scandinavians is traditional, ingrained. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway habitually walk about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted...
Lady Diana. Chicagoans marveled at the beauty of Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Duff-Cooper, understood why Britain pets and serves her as its fairest daughter. A slip of a woman in her early thirties, colored in delicate pastel, she sustains the fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed...
King George, the Crown Prince Olaf of Norway,* the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and Prince Henry were present, together with Queen Mary, Queen Maud of Norway,? the Princess Victoria,? Princess Marie of Greece and a few other royal notables...
...Majesty, who for some time past has been failing in health, has suffered a severe heart attack"; and at once King George and Queen Mary hastened to her bedside, at Sandringham, in Norfolk. Already there were George's three sisters, Louise, the Princess Royal; the Princess Victoria; and Queen Maud of Norway. At London a special train waited, with steam up, ready at an instant's notice to speed the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York toward Sandringham, should their grandmother be declared upon the point of death...
...Queen Alexandra retains this "dower house," in which she and King Edward spent the first years of their married life. For many months she has lived in retirement at Sandringham, where her daughter Queen Maud of Norway paid her a long visit last winter...