Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortunate in our name, and so are the "Australians"; but "New Zealanders" is awkward, and "South Africans" sounds as though one meant the blacks. It's all quite a problem. Personally I am still "Englishman" enough to be glad that my father was "a soldier of the Queen," though I would hate to have to fight for the present Prince of Wales, if he ever becomes King. Not but what I like him, personally; but Canada drifts further away from England every...
...Right" v. "Treason." Whatever the "right" of South Africans, their Governor-General continues to be appointed by His Majesty George V, who sent to that post in 1923 a younger brother of Queen Mary, the Earl of Athlone (TIME, April...
Edward of Wales had crossed the Channel for the occasion, but, though he was welcomed cordially, louder Belgian cheers rang out for Charles of Flanders. Even Britons were glad that this keen, upstanding Prince had been pushed to the fore by the fact that King Albert and Queen Elizabeth are now returning from Africa, after touring the Belgian Congo (TIME...
Death. A solemn Royal theme was Death. Every official flag in Sweden went to half mast for Prince Friedrich II, 71, abdicated Grand Duke of Baden in Germany, uncle of the reigning Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and brother of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Sweden...
Thus ended the tragedy of the F14, but a courageous epilogue was enacted off Santander, Spain, last week by King Alfonso XIII, Queen Victoria Eugenie and their second son, the Infante Don Jaime. These royal persons, having read the final newspaper accounts of asphyxiation aboard the F14, proceeded to quiet their nerves by entering the Spanish super-submarine 51, which promptly dived beneath Atlantic billows for a short, serene voyage, a safe return...