Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nurse Rowe rushed out of the delivery room and down the hall to Philip. When he heard her news, Philip's face lighted as fathers' faces have since time began, and he raced off to tell the King. There were others to tell as well-Queen Mary by telephone, Philip's mother, who was in Greece, and his uncle. Earl Mountbatten, by wire. After Philip had made his family calls, Home Secretary James Chuter Ede, the first on the official list, was duly notified...
Soon after, as the news sang around the world, Great-Grandmother Queen Mary arrived in white evening dress and ermine, and Philip broached a bottle of champagne to toast the newcomer. "A spanking fine baby," said Grandfather George...
...half centuries ago an ugly rumor swept Britain. It damned the royal son just born to Queen Mary and arrogant, Roman Catholic King James II as a changeling, slipped into the royal childbed in a warming pan. The rumor was later proved false, but for a while it served to bolster the claim of James's Protestant daughter Mary to a throne which she and her husband William of Orange soon conquered anyway. Spirited off to France, the traduced infant became "the Old Pretender...
...London, Queen Elizabeth was staying indoors for a couple of days with a touch of the grippe...
Uneasy Heads. In Mars Hill, N.C., Mary Stringfield, queen of the Carolina Poultry Industries Exposition, ate a plate of scrambled eggs at her coronation and broke out in a rash. In Chicago, Cornelia Ward, queen of the National Safety Council Congress, was shaken up in an automobile accident...