Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royal physicians inquired for a suitable winter residence in South Africa where the summer sun shines all winter; where Queen Mary's brother, Earl of Athlone is Governor-General; where guinea hens, bustards await the royal...
Followed a fanfare of trumpets. These military sounds in the House of God prefaced a great thanksgiving service for the King's recovery. Present in the Abbey were King George and Queen Mary, members of the royal family, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, members of the Diplomatic Corps and as many of the people of London as could crowd inside the doors. At the same time thanksgiving services were held in all other churches throughout the Empire...
During the interview, Amanullah's wife, Queen Thuraya, lay, heavy and silent, in her deck chair. She had just borne another child (a daughter named India) at Bombay and looked more like a poor emigrant than an exiled queen. Amanullah complained of poverty, said he had only $30, had had to abandon his clothes when he fled from Kandahar, Afghanistan...
...follow this up, she turns on him angrily with: "I'm not so hard up I got to walk with scarecrows like, you!" She certainly is not "hard up." The toss of her head, the swing of her hips as she walked away from Jencic, bespeak an alley queen who can pick and change her lovers as she chooses...
Spanish Flyers. Queen Victoria of Spain last week gave a formal luncheon to Commander Ramon Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza. Spanish trans-atlantic aspirants, and their English rescuers (TIME, July 1, 8). A stayaway: Mechanic Sergeant Pedro Madariaga. Reason: Spanish court rules permit only members of the nobility or persons of high official rank to attend formal royal functions...