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When she was only five years old, the collector's passion seized Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Princess of Teck. She began hoarding Christmas cards, and throughout a long and energetic life as Britain's Queen Mary, she kept collecting. Before her death last year at the age of 85, she had assembled one of the most splendiferous royal collections of objets d'art in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frontier Reporter: A Queen's Taste | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Sidetracked. In Cleveland, suing for divorce, Olga Textoris, 25, said that her husband Edward, 27, refused to let her buy a $30 winter coat, next day bought himself some $35 worth of attachments for his electric train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Overestimate. In Cheyenne, Wyo., offered a suspended sentence if she could guess how many days the court had in mind, Fortune-Teller Olga Rambova hesitated, then replied, "I think it's 30 days," was sent to jail for 25 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...with the King of Prussia. The feud was not patched up until years later when the Hanoverian prince, Ernst August. Duke of Brunswick, married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The third child (and first daughter) of that marriage was Frederika Louise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa, Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg, and present Queen of Greece. She was born on April 18, 1917 in the Hanoverian fortress of Blankenburg, in a united Prussian Germany about to go down to defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The King's Wife | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...cemetery in which Olga and Tightpants lie is "a Catholic one, a Faith that still believes in miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More & More Miraculous | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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