Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irate Scotsmen, Welshmen and Irishmen occasionally point out, ''There are no such persons in existence as the King and Queen of England"-i.e., they are King and Queen of the United Kingdom. The last Sovereign of England was Queen Elizabeth, who died...
...jointly by both Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Reason for this question: when there is no male heir to a British peerage it descends equally upon female heirs who are sisters, and the House was much disquieted last week by the thought that England might some day have two Queens at once, after the manner of the two simultaneous Kings of Barataria in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers. So tremendous is the prestige of an opinion by Sir John Simon that all thought of enacting one-Queen legislation ended when the Home Secretary opined that Princess Elizabeth...
...Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing, and the peerages strongly predicted in London for Cunard White Star Board Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates, apropos the Queen Mary, and Home Secretary Sir John Simon, apropos his legal work on the Abdication, also were not conferred at this time...
...fine brood mare, but knowing Viscount & Viscountess St. Davids bestowed the gift supreme: 24 volumes of the Blood Stock Breeders Review. In the friendly atmosphere of English tenantry toward their Duke no less than 94 ash trays and 61 lamps came in, along with the presents of Queen Mother Mary, King George & Queen Elizabeth, for as Burke's Peerage says: "The Ducal and illustrious Howards stand, next to the Blood Royal, at the head of the Peerage of England...
Most troublesome of all Coronations to the family of Norfolk was that of Edward VII in 1902. Reason: Queen Victoria had lived so long (82 years) that most Court officials who knew how all the little details of a Coronation have to be managed, had preceded Her Majesty to the grave. Some $25.000 was spent by the Howards doing over and refurnishing apartments in one of their castles to be occupied on a brief visit of Queen Victoria, and the present Duke treasures in a glass case the parting gift to his late father bestowed by Her Majesty. This...