Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poet Rudyard Kipling insulted Queen Victoria with a Barrack Room Ballad. It hailed, "the Widow at Windsor," rollicked that she sent her soldiers to "barbarious wars," bellowed that she had bought " 'alf 'o Creation" with English blood...
...Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, was sharply rebuked last week by dignified, shocked wardens of the Amsterdam Christian Reformed Church. They felt that the good Queen had desecrated a Sunday on which she awarded prizes to winners in the Olympic Games...
Princess Marie Louise, cousin of King George V of England, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was cut in the face by flying glass in an automobile accident in Gloucestershire, England...
Intimates of Queen Elizabeth...
Belgians were privileged, last week, to behold Her Majesty attired in a long pair of "harem trousers" reaching down to her shoes and fastened spatwise under the insteps. The Queen had worn the garment on the dustier stages of Their Majesties' recent tour of the Belgian Congo. "They are practical, ces pantalons colonials," smiled Her Majesty, "and many Belgian women in our Congo find them indispensable centre les insectes...