Word: queened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British Royal House changed from Hanover to Saxe-Coburg und Gotha by the marriage of Queen Victoria to a prince of the latter house. On Jan. 17, 1917, "the House of Windsor" was arbitrarily created...
...fundamental democracy of Scandinavians is traditional, ingrained. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway habitually walk about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted...
Working swiftly and in the dead of night, friends of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania (TIME, Jan. 11, 18) pasted up enormous scarlet caricatures upon the buildings of Bucharest, the capital. Had Queen Marie (Carol's mother) ridden abroad in the early dawn, she would have beheld a coarse likeness of her alleged "court favorite," Prince Babu Stirbey, leering at her everywhere above the caption, "This...
...police, of course, tore the posters down as fast as they could. That night, the Carolists pasted up still more, pasted an especially large poster directly opposite the apartments of Queen Marie. This time the caricature of Prince Stirbey displayed him in an attitude highly uncomplimentary to the Queen. As Her Majesty glanced out the window, the insinuating caption fairly shrieked at her: How do you like...
...Carolist press, although mercilessly repressed by the Government censor, managed to insinuate the alleged significance of all these developments. It hinted that before Prince Carol set out to attend the funeral of Queen Alexandra (TIME, Jan. 11,) he "encountered Prince Babu Stirbey in the antechamber of Queen Marie's apartments and proceeded to box his ears...