Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With her own hand, according to London dispatches last week, Queen Elizabeth adjusted the towels in a guest bathroom at Buckingham Palace and placed there a fresh cake of soap bearing the British royal arms. This was for the use of King Leopold III of the Belgians, whose state visit went off in glittering, uneventful style as scheduled (TIME, Nov. 22). At the last moment before the state ball there was substituted for the Royal Artillery Band, which even courtiers have called "lousy," swank Marshall's Orchestra. For the first time at Buckingham Palace the crowned heads danced...
...state banquet a toast which might have brought tears to the eyes of Queen Mary was proposed by King Leopold, responding to the toast in his honor by King George. "It is sad to recall," said Leopold III, raising his glass, "that I should, in 1935, have paid to His Majesty King George V and to your dear mother the visit which I pay to Your Majesty today. The sorrows that have befallen your family and mine, grievous as they are, have forged a further link of mutual sympathy and friendship between our royal houses and, through them, between...
...daughter of the King of Italy, was reported to be looking personally into Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new and most cordial relations with II Duce. London's leftist tipster sheet The Week had Greece's King George "afraid he has cancer. His mother Queen Sophie died of it. And before that her mother too. ... If the British doctors' opinion is unfavorable, then the King will abdicate in January." At dingy but swank Brown's Hotel, where George II was staying, Leopold III called and Their Majesties took...
...Hesse it strikes with all its fateful weight. First great blow to the ancient German family was the discovery that it had contributed to the spread of the dread blood disease, hemophilia. Marriage of two princes of Hesse to Princess Beatrice, Princess Alice, daughters of England's Queen Victoria, carried this curse to the blood of the imperial Russian and royal Spanish families. Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis. Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg...
...killed for political reasons, his associates were the men to do it. One was a shady figure named Ingram Frizer, once a confidence man, employed by Marlowe's patron; one was a thief named Nicholas Skeres, who was mixed up in one of the Catholic conspiracies around Mary Queen of Scotland, and finally jailed for taking part in Essex uprising against Elizabeth. The third, Robert Poley, an important figure in the British secret service, had returned that morning from a confidential mission abroad. He had become Walsingham's agent after a term in jail, had wormed...