Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese novelty makers on learning of Prince George's engagement to Princess Marina (TIME, Sept. 10) promptly began stamping out at Osaka last week "George and Marina badges" to be peddled in London at the time of the wedding, date not yet announced. Said the leading Japanese bunting jobber of Kobe, "We shipped to Australia several weeks ago a very large proportion of the flags and bunting they will use to greet the Duke of Gloucester" (see above...
...matter what he is doing, from opening the Chamber of Deputies to attending a garden party, grizzled, militant King Vittorio Emmanuele III nearly always wears the uniform of a general. For a wonder last week His Majesty put on civilian clothes, stepped with Her Majesty and their youngest daughter Princess Maria into a sleek Fiat limousine. It slid down the crushed oyster shell drive of the royal villa at San Rossore. took the long white road north, unescorted and unannounced. Citizens of the bustling little seaside town of Viareggio had no idea that their King and Queen were among them...
Devout Catholics, the King, Queen and Princess were greeted by that blackest of blacks, Zita, widow of His Apostolic Majesty the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary who reigned for two years as successor to Franz Josef, died deposed and broken-hearted at Funchal, Madeira. Last week Zita's well-trained Habsburg retainers did meticulous royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita...
...nearing 50 and his long greying hair gave him something of the diabolic appearance of Paganini. He went to Rome with his faithful Princess; in 1865, after he discovered they could not get married, he took minor orders in the Roman Church. But the Abbe Liszt had not given up music. By degrees his oldtime popularity returned to him. He was invited again to Weimar for a part of each year. Hungary formed an Academy of Music, put him in charge, greeted him so exuberantly that he played the piano for the populace from a balcony. Like an aged Byron...
Engaged, Prince George of England, 31, youngest son of the King of England; and Princess Marina, 27, daughter of Prince Nicolas of Greece...