Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the Western Pact of Adolf Hitler's dreams and schemes was not yet in the bag, but Ambassador von Ribbentrop received the significant British honor of being invited to a house party at Knowsley Hall by the Earl of Derby, great & good friend of King George V & Queen Mary, not hitherto rated pro-German and in British Government circles one of the most influential aristocrats in the Kingdom. Derby took the course of advising British editors that his entertaining of von Ribbentrop was a "purely private affair" and that "any talk will be confidential." He expected the Kingdom...
...British Industries Fair last week: News cameramen have just snapped the Queen Mother, King & Queen, Duke & Duchess of Kent and are turning away as the Princess Royal arrives...
...Anglican Church, convinced as it is that it is truly Catholic, is young compared with its Catholic colleagues throughout the world. And many an Anglican is sensitive because doubt has been cast-mostly by Roman Catholics- upon the validity of Anglican priestly powers, which are descended from those of Queen Elizabeth's first Archbishop, who according to Roman Catholics was not validly consecrated. Last week the Church of England was grateful because the Church of Rumania had acknowledged that Anglican holy orders are valid...
...Named for its founder in 1886, Charles Cruft. In 1891 Queen Victoria gave Cruft's the cachet which has made it Europe's greatest dog show by entering her collie and three pomeranians. Now 84 and probably the world's best-known dogman, Founder Cruft still manages the show, avoids partiality among breeds by keeping no dog of his own. Says he of dogs: "I admire them because they do not talk...
Franz Joseph, late Emperor of Austria, lived so long that, like his opposite number, Queen Victoria of England, he became an institution. Both these high-principled embodiments of monarchy were young once; both married for love, neither of them ever got over it. But Victoria was lucky, Franz Joseph was not. Many of his misfortunes were due to foreign levies, but malice domestic caused his greatest sorrows. To those numerous U. S. readers who like to peek through the hedge at royalty, Bertita Harding's intimate narrative of Franzi and his wife Sisi will be as good a show...