Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carmen Sylva" was the pen name of Queen Elizabeth (died in 1915), aunt of the present Monarch and wife of King Carol I of Rumania who died on Oct. 7, 1914. She wrote with facility in English, French, German, Rumanian. The most noteworthy of her writings: Les Pensees d'une Relne (1882), Cuvinte Sufletesci (1888); two poems, Sappho and Hammerstein...
...uniform of a general, took his seat upon a throne, erected under a canopy of red velvet, decorated with the Arms of Savoy in gold. Above and behind him were the Queen and the Princesses Mafalda and Giovanna, surrounded by their households. On either side of the Monarch were the Princes of the Blood Royal, resplendent in military uniforms. At the foot of the throne was Benito, covered with gold and lace and plumes...
...press I rendered him a tribute of which the following was alleged to be a translation: 'I desire to give homage to His Majesty the King on his 38th birthday. It is my belief that King Alfonso XIII is the wisest, most intelligent and most patriotic monarch in Europe. He is graced with a profound love of his people and with superlative knowledge and statecraft. Spain is indeed fortunate in possessing such a sovereign who had he not been born a King would, nevertheless, have to be considered one of the great statesmen of Europe. It is well-nigh...
...wisest, most intelligent and most patriotic monarch in Europe...
Child's bank was founded about 1560 and has occupied the same site in Fleet Street ever since. Among its noted depositors have been Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys, Horace Walpole, John Dryden, Charles II, the Merry Monarch, and his famous mistress Nell Gwyn...