Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Westminster, the King retired to the Robing Room where with help of chamberlains he donned "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Then he and Queen Mary entered the great Gothic hall of the House of Lords...
Resplendently clad Peers and heavily robed bishops rose. In the galleries diamonded Peeresses stared, rustled, bowed. Lights blazed and kindled the darting iridescences of a thousand gems. No gem, however, burned more richly than the famous Cullinan Diamond which, as all could see, the Queen-Empress was wearing...
...Governor-General of the Union of South Africa is the Earl of Athene, brother of Queen-Empress Mary. When General Hertzog marched in with the collective resignation of the Cabinet, Her Majesty's brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social...
Departed for Sweden and possibly matchmaking, last week, the Princess Ileana, daughter of Dowager Queen Marie, adolescent aunt of the Boy King. "The Princess," it was announced, "will study the women's organizations of Sweden...
...humanly interesting was Professor Breasted's Luxor Expedition discovery of what seems to have been the private apartment of Rameses III. A large hall contained a dais for his throne. Adjoining was his bedroom with private bath. Alongside his was his queen's suite, and three rooms with private baths for his concubines...