Word: princess
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...Majesty is the first Scotswoman in over eight centuries to marry an English King, the first since Henry I married Matilda in noo A.D. She is descended from Sir John Lyon, the adventurous Thane of Glamis who in 1376 won as his bride Princess Jean, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, goes back to an earlier legendary period, but tourists still visit the Queen's ancestral home Glamis (pronounced Glahms) Castle to see where "Macbeth did murder Duncan," King of Scotland...
...sights of Glamis and afterward when most of them offered tips she was Scotch about that too. About 30 miles from Glamis is the Royal Family's Balmoral Castle, and Queen Mary took an early fancy to budding Lady Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George V was at this time vainly trying to get Edward of Wales to settle down by marrying, but, although Lady Elizabeth was mentioned prominently, it was not "David" (the future Edward VIII) but "Bertie," then Duke of York, who presently came to Glamis and did his best...
...Lizzie." Two days after their splendrous marriage at Westminster Abbey in 1923 the Duchess of York, still technically a "commoner" was made a Royal Princess with the rank of H.R.H. by approving George V. She asked her friends to keep on calling her "Lizzie...
...royal style (he shot a white rhinoceros, she refused to shoot another "because they are so rare"); Polish monarchists offered to start a movement to make him King of Poland (he declined with thanks); the Duke came down with influenza; and the Duchess was delivered of her first child, Princess Elizabeth, on April...
...England's Hon. Frederick Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, kin-in-law of Princess Mary, Princess Royal of Great Britain...