Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bumbling way of conveying to His Majesty an expression of the Cabinet's grief on learning that not even Lord Dawson of Penn, who saved George V's life seven years ago, had been able to save the King's elder sister, H. R. H. Princess Victoria, who died last week (TIME...
Favorite grandchild and namesake of Queen Victoria, the princess had been known all her life in the Royal Family as "Toria," suffered incessantly from various complaints, and had never married because, in the Victorian phrase, "her beloved was of less than royal station." King George called her his "sweetest sister." She gravely and dutifully aided that merry monarch Edward VII as his personal secretary until his death. Then, with her beautiful and imperious mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra, she passed into even more dutiful retirement, became "Alexandra's shadow." Not until she was 57 did Princess Victoria ever have...
...subsequent acts enlarging or amending its rights and powers. There are six folio volumes labelled "Autographs of English, Scotch, and Irish Peers; South Sea Documents", which contain the list of victims. Here are to be found the documents and signatures of George II, and Queen Caroline when Prince and Princess of Wales, Lord Chesterfield, the Earl of Buckingham, and Sir Robert Walpole, as well as countless others...
Died. H. R. H. Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary, 67, sister of George V; of stomach hemorrhage; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. Princess Victoria's retired life and spinsterhood were popularly attributed to an early love affair with a man whom her rank forbade her to marry...
...prosaic world of fact. Of course, M. Banco effects a coup d'etat in the land he has come to rescue. Then he alternates between oppressive sanity and enlightened madness. The queen alternates between resolutions to abdicate and to force her handsome granddaughter into marriage with the tyrant. This princess alternates--but it's even duller in the telling. Climax succeeds anti-climax in rapid succession; tick, took, tick, tock; monotonous alteration in the best soporific...