Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victoria's Granddaughter. Parisians rubbed their eyes once more at Queen Marie, unquestionably the most modish of the late Queen Victoria's granddaughters. Queen Marie, the daughter of Victoria's second son, the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, never seemed more the perfect type of Germano-British womanhood than when she greeted with a radiant smile General Lasson, the military aide of President Doumergue who welcomed her to Paris and presented an armful of roses...
...royal party drove to the Ritz Hotel, Parisians wondered whether Queen Marie would give audience during her stay in Paris to her eldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, now resident at Paris with his favorite, Mme. Lupescu (TIME, Jan. 18). Her Majesty, astute, kept interest in a possible reconciliation between herself and Carol at fever heat during the week by refusing to affirm or deny that she would...
Almost the only one of Queen Marie's children not in the public eye with her last week was, therefore, her eldest daughter, the deposed Queen Elizabeth of Greece...
Within an hour toute Paris was agog to learn that Queen Marie had ordered sleeves-long sleeves- on all her daytime frocks and had further defied the mode by order-ing her dresses long-almost ankle length...
...great deal of pussyfooting was indulged in by Rumanian officials at Washington and Paris as to whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...