Word: princess
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Princess Wilhelmina's life was mostly work and little play. At ten her father died and she became Queen, with her able mother acting as Regent. On her first appearance on the balcony of the Royal Palace at Amsterdam she is said to have asked: "Mama, do all these people belong to me?" Queen Emma answered: "No, my child, it is you who belong to all these people." Her preparation by private tutors for queenship was guided by this principle. At 18, in 1898, she was crowned in the New Church at Amsterdam, swearing to support the Constitution...
...when he suddenly found himself minus debts and with a yearly allowance of $106,000 from the Government. Her Majesty did not approve, but she was said to have softened up a bit when she became a grandmother. A girl, Beatrix, was born to the Prince and Princess in January 1938, another daughter, Irene, last August...
...case drew to a close, Sir William Jowitt, ace lawyer for Lord Rothermere, summed up by observing that not only was the Princess' story that she had been promised $20,000 yearly for life untrue, "but if it were true it could only be true on the basis that this lady was flirting with blackmail...
...quick curtain was rung down in London last week on the opera bouffe lawsuit of Her Serene Highness Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst v. Viscount Rothermere (TIME...
...Princess' claim that he promised to pay her $20,000 a year for the rest of her life, Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, boomed "Preposterous!" He admitted paying her $250,000 in six years to handle his relations with Adolf Hitler and other European bigwigs, naively explaining: "I expected her to live like a queen." But when asked if she was his ambassador, prognathous Rothermere replied with heavy humor: "I am not a sovereign state...