Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Dowager Queen came Princess Helene.? Quiet and considerate, she gazed with pity at M. Bratiano for some moments, then withdrew without uttering a word...
Jangling telephones brought to Jon Bratiano's death bed, at 3 a. m., the three Regents* of Rumania, also Dowager Queen Marie, Princess Helene (mother of 6-year-old King Michael), and all the Cabinet Ministers, headed by the Premier's brother, Vintila Bratiano...
...Queen Marie approached her old and loyal friend, she asked in French: "Do you feel better...
Meanwhile Queen Marie had remarked to a physician: "It is less than four months since the King [Ferdinand I, her husband] died (TIME, Aug. 1). . . . Now another great figure is in the shadows of Death. . . . Poor Rumania has many crosses to bear...
...grave, Mme. Jon Bratiano* swayed and seemed nigh to fainting. She was embraced and steadied by the Dowager Queen Marie, who, turning toward the coffin as it was lowered into the earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...