Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formal court mourning is an expensive undertaking against which many London businesses-notably caterers-are insured. The English court never prescribes mourning for those not of the Royal Family, no matter how close their relationship. Death of the Queen's mother proved no exception. The Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain, announced "no commands for Court mourning will be issued by the King," added that "Their Majesties will observe family mourning as also will members of the Royal households when in attendance upon Their Majesties...
...Countess' death came only six days before the long-awaited, elaborately-arranged State visit of the King & Queen to Paris was scheduled to take place. From France came regrets from President Albert Lebrun, a promptly accepted suggestion that the visit be postponed until July...
...young Mickey Rooney to act as head prefect. To Geoffrey, the routine lacks excitement. It is not until he has insulted the headmaster's wife, tried to run away, been put in coventry, acted as coxswain of the crew and finally been offered a job on the Queen Mary that his appreciation of Russell-Cotes's advantages becomes complete. By this time, in addition to the familiar sight of Master Freddie keeping a stiff upper lip without letting it interfere with the clipped precision of his diction, audiences will have been treated to a presumably authentic glimpse...
Died. Princess Jane di San Faustino, 74; of pneumonia; in Rome. Born plain Jane Campbell in Bernardsville, N. J. she married a prince, became the sharp-tongued social queen of Rome for nearly half a century...
Died. Nina Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 75, mother of England's Queen Elizabeth; of heart disease; in London...