Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarcely a heavy, weight is the chief Regent of Yugoslavia, earnest and cultured Prince Paul, handsome brother-in-law of Britain's beauteous Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent...
...secretly to Spain, might much more easily from these fields attack Germany. Despite such unmentionables as these at the White Castle in Belgrade last week, friendly gestures were for President Benes to decorate Dowager Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, her son King Peter, and Regent Prince Paul's wife Princess Olga, after which Mrs. Benes was decorated in return. Another day there was a palace banquet and before President Benes left for home the "Smartest Little Statesman" was so much on his toes as to flatter Boy King Peter with the gift of a gold-fitted dressing case featuring...
Because the Princess Royal, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, was tripped up by her 10-foot train at the age of 14 and her coronet fell off at the door of Westminster Abbey in 1911, it was announced last week that Princess Elizabeth, 10-year-old heir to the Throne, will profit by this lesson of experience. Her Royal Highness will be supplied with a very short train not apt to trip her, a very light coronet not apt to slide off in any case, equipped with a strong elastic band...
...which no statesman in thrifty Europe would ever have to part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared at the station and shot a man who had always treated her with deference and courtesy in her role as a newspaper woman...
...King has a natural candor matching that of the new Queen. About six years after his marriage he said as Duke of York, "My chief claim to fame seems to be that I am the father of Princess Elizabeth." To a pushing cinemagnate who managed to buttonhole the Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted...