Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested in the article on SPAIN in TIME, Sept. 26. It is certainly tragic that all King Alfonso's sons should be practically invalids. Of course the bad blood comes through Queen Victoria of Spain's father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was a Hesse-Darmstadt like Empress Alexandra of Russia, and her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis, had hemophilia as Crown Prince Alfonso has. Also Queen Victoria of Spain's two brothers were both delicate and died young, Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg, only her eldest brother Alexander (now Marquess of Carisbrooke in England...
...forceful, and he does not endeavor so to emphasize his role as to throw the other characters unreasonably into the background. On the contrary his supporting cast contributes greatly to the excellence of his own interpretation of Hamlet, Louis Leon Hall and Irby Marshall as the king and queen being particularly satisfactory. Philip Quin in the part of Polonius somehow tails, in the opinion of the reviewer, to give an altogether persuasive representation, but, inasmuch as the true character of the Lord Chamberlain is largely a matter for opinion. Mr. Quin's playing of it is also a matter...
...Nine-tenths of the Hungarian people, including, myself, would gladly welcome the return to a monarchy. Budapest would receive our exiled Queen and Prince Otto as our King with enthusiasm, but the big European powers object to this natural and rational solution of the simple dynastic problem...
...murmur of "I told you so," went up. Boris was looking for an English girl of aristocratic parentage, of which there were scores eligible. But those who knew smiled, recalled the young King's sentiments not long ago expressed: "Bulgaria cannot afford a Queen. I sometimes wonder if she can afford a King...
Unheralded, Count Rilski arrived in London, took the famed Scottish Express north. At Balmoral, Scottish home of King George† and Queen Mary, he descended from the carriage, again King Boris of Bulgaria. For the first time since the War, the British sovereigns entertained the monarch of a onetime enemy state...