Word: queened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the doctrines of the Church of England are is a question which has embattled Anglicans from the time of Queen Elizabeth to a decade ago, when revision of the Book of Common Prayer was fought out in the House of Commons. That the Established Church is weary of controversy, that it would like to think of itself as an institution in which believers of various sorts might find themselves at home seemed evident last week in a 242-page report on Doctrine in the Church of England, product of 15 years of work by a commission now headed...
...account of the Abdication written for tiny tots, Kings and Things by H. E. Marshall: "King Edward loved a lady and wanted to marry her . . . but a whole lot of people all over the Empire didn't like her much and didn't want her to be Queen...
...Dictator General John Metaxas, an outspoken admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, whose brashness makes the Greek Royal Family, all handsome and high-strung as greyhounds, shudder. From England the bridegroom's first cousin Princess Marina, beauteous Duchess of Kent, brought a sprig from the favorite myrtle tree of Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of the bride. From Doom portly Prince Oscar, son of Wilhelm II, brought a sprig of orange blossom from the orangerie of the one-time Kaiser, grandfather of Princess Frederika who wore both sprigs as she entered Athens Cathedral...
...palace at Bucharest, King Carol of Rumania, hearing that the weather had turned foul, anxiously wirelessed Commander Gika Dimutriscu of his destroyer Regina Maria (named after his mother, Queen Marie). Aboard the Regina Maria was his son, Crown Prince Mihai, bound for Athens and the wedding of Crown Prince Paul of Greece (see p. 26), where his mother, divorced Queen Helen, was waiting...
...fact-laden essay on medieval Liibeck, centre of the Hanseatic League, sections devoted to business in Venice and Florence, to booms & crashes in Nurnberg, Antwerp, Bremen, the rise and fall of the Fuggers, the spectacular careers of Jacques Coeur, financier of Joan of Arc, and of Gresham, who backed Queen Elizabeth. But all this, with asides about church finances, taxes, makes up only the first half of the story of the businessman's endless race with ruin...