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...brave monarch does not hesitate when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...Belgium ; secondarily upon his many and riotously extravagant mistresses; and lastly upon his Queen, Marie Henriette, "The Rose of Brabant," a great-niece of Marie Antoinette, a great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa, and "lovelier than either" -as gallant King Leopold often told her. . . . Uncle Leopold visited the Congo as Monarch about 1860, receiving abject homage. Nephew Albert toured the Congo in 1909 as Crown Prince. This, the present state visit of King Albert, is a reap-parition royale after 19 years. Significant was the cordial approval of Queen Elizabeth which was manifested, last week, by inhabitants of Ruanda, Africa...
Curiously enough it was not belligerent Benito Mussolini who unveiled last week the wrath-kindling Bolzano monument. The Dictator was busy in Rome averting a panic and "rotating" his Cabinet (see ITALY). Therefore the limelight at Bolzano was held by a most diminutive monarch, King Vittorio Emanuele...
...say?as British Minister* when the World War broke out?that if all the churches in Christendom had said in 1914, 'Halt. This murder must not begin,' not a monarch nor minister in Christendom would have dared start...
...Legation garden with Mr. Culbertson's small daughters (whom reckless correspondents described as "sons" on one such occasion). The American Minister, having addressed His Majesty and perceived that he is not deaf, and having received from his own eyes and daughters, ample testimony of the six-year-old monarch's normalcy, was able and glad to reassure Rumanians who had not access to their King. A scurrilous despatch from Bucharest, last week, envisioned His Majesty as licking with relish and sticking onto many an envelope stamps of the new series which bears his portrait...