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...Pepys was mighty proud of going behind the scenes once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might be Charles the Second to the rest of his subjects, but that to her he was Charles the Third." (She had had two Charleses...
...word, but two last words. A cable from her grandson, the Marquess of Blandford, asked her to stand with George V at the christening of her great-grandson. "Bishop Manning repudiates me and accepts my gift," said she. "But the Archbishop of Canterbury permits me to stand with his monarch at a christening." And when Bishop Manning imprudently asked her for a donation to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Mrs. Belmont snapped: ''I am still a divorced woman...
...days when Paris was lit by gas instead of neon lights and Lithographer Honoré Daumier was discovering that Louis Philippe, "the Bourgeois Monarch," had a head like a pear, there lived a free & easy young woman of striking beauty named Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camélias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing...
...Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam has ceased to be the world's last absolute monarch. Of all great foreign powers only the Russian Soviets and the Italian Fascists have not had upheavals and overturns...
...Sinaia Palace, where the new Rumanian Cabinet received their seals and swore fealty to King Carol last week, Premier Maniu seemed to end his personal feud with the scapegrace monarch in these ringing words: "We will work to consolidate the Throne! We will erect a protecting wall about...