Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spinners of tales said that King Alfonso had left behind him portentous letters fit only for royal eyes. Others had it that Queen Victoria of Sweden had rejected his gift of a ruby necklace as too costly. Last week came truth...
...chatting not only of himself and Russia but about the two other Romanov grand dukes who were most in the public eye, last week: 1) The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies on the Western Front (1914-15) and brother-in-law of Queen Elena of Italy, who lay in a dying condition last week at Nice; and 2) The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, grandson-in-law of British Queen Victoria, who continues to proclaim himself "Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias," in succession to his assassinated cousin Tsar Nicholas II. & Last...
False, almost jubilant reports last fortnight had it that King Amanullah of Afghanistan and Queen Thuraya had been driven out of Kabul, their capital, by insurgents who objected to the King's dictum that all male Afghans wear pants...
...Virgin Queen-delicately he even grants her her virginity. But to Lytton Strachey no meretricious novelty is necessary, such is the compelling freshness of his interpretation, and such the uncanny vitality of his art. Elizabeth has always made engaging reading, but from Strachey's pages she emerges in all her living bizarre glamor to fascinate a jaded 20th century as surely as she fascinated the sensitive enthusiasts of her day. And it is not the youthful Elizabeth, but Elizabeth in her triumphant old age-her enemies outplayed and outlived; her darlings still vying for her favors. In vivid galaxy...
...adopted first by the Germans. A German gentlewoman was visiting in England over Christmastide early in the last century, and part of her celebration was a little fir-tree lighted with candles. It was pretty, and next year Prince Albert had a Christmas tree for his wife, the queen at Windsor Castle; and after that its popularity was established in Britain. It was a German army that took, as well as Death, the Christmas tree to France. During the Franco-Prussian war the Germans, celebrating Christmas in their fashion, spread a love for the custom all through the invaded country...