Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Carol finished up his London week by lunching, without Mme Lupescu, in Buckingham Palace with George VI & Queen Elizabeth...
Scapegrace King Carol was received at Maryborough House in London last week by discriminating Queen Mary who did not receive his henna-haired Jewish friend, Mme Magda Lupescu. After both Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had called upon His Majesty, King Carol announced with a keen sense of timing that he had just bought the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin which was leased last year by King Edward VIII for his cruise with Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Said His Majesty: "She is a beautiful vessel, one of the most splendid afloat. I need relief sometimes from State...
...nostalgic New York Times editorial last week observed, "side-wheelers and side-whiskers go together in the memory." Thousands of New England newlyweds and not-yet-weds got their first breathless glimpse of Manhattan from the deck of a Fall River queen, occasional suicides bought tickets and jumped overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...
Dennis Stoll, U. S.-hating young British composer, received permission from Queen Elizabeth to dedicate to Princess Margaret Rose a suite for strings and harp. The four movements are entitled: To Her Hands in Prayer, To Her Feet in Dance, To Her Heart in Beauty, To Her Infinite Variety...
Base plot of And So-Victoria revolves around the attempts of the Duke of Cumberland to prevent Queen Victoria from coming to the English throne. Supporting villains are the whole House of Hanover, blacker than the ink that tells about them. Hero of the story, an Anthony Adverse type of character, is Christopher Harnish, whose sinister connection with Hanoverian royalty is first dangled before the reader on page 112, when it is discovered that his mother, a sister of George IV, secretly married her brother's illegitimate...