Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalled the 23rd anniversary of Britain's going to war but they were well aware of the 37th anniversary of another event, the birth of a girl child- her ninth-to the amiable and motherly Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne. It was the birthday of England's new Queen Elizabeth...
Night before, the royal family boarded their private railway coaches, bound for the traditional six-weeks holiday at beautiful Scottish Balmoral Castle. At Aberdeen, kilted King George, his Scottish Queen, and their two little princesses, decked in royal Stuart tartan, received a rousing welcome from thousands of sturdy Aberdonians, drove fifty miles along the Dee River to Balmoral Castle...
...England's great festival of precedent and tradition, the Coronation season. Last fortnight Farouk the First arrived back in Cairo to have his own kingship solemnized by a ceremony for which there was no precedent, no tradition. Nearly 2,000 years ago died beak-nosed but fascinating Queen Cleopatra*, the last of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egypt then became a province of the Roman Empire until 641 A.D. when it fell to the Mohammedan Empire. In 1914 the British Empire's War Office issued this proclamation: "In view of the state of war arising out of the action...
Farouk had arrived from a European holiday with Fawziya, Faiza, Faika and Fathiya, his sisters, and his mother Queen Nazli "a handsomer Queen than Cleopatra." His father Fuad considered that "names commencing with 'F' are exceedingly propitious," and today Egyptians consider Farouk just about tops in a name beginning with F since it means in translation "One Who Carefully Distinguishes Between Right & Wrong." In any Eastern country the populace always frantically cheer their Lord and Master,* and both Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal...
...place, Farouk took up country residence at Kenry House, Kingston Hill, soon was greatly liked for his democratic ways by local English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk's four "F" sisters dressed like demure English schoolgirls with pigtails down their backs. Queen Nazli excelled her brood in snapping, developing and printing photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor Napoleon took to Egypt, and from this ancestor King Farouk inherits his "heavy dragoon" appearance, big-boned, healthy and hefty, with a fair complexion most rare...