Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago His Majesty King Zog posted with the more reputable European marriage brokers an offer of $5,000 for a bride "suitable to become Queen of Albania," and willing. Tirana, the mountainous little kingdom's capital, is regarded among diplomats as the "worst hole" in Europe. In a famed instance, lonely King Zog through his telescope espied from the Royal Palace four traveling salesmen playing cards in their Tirana hotel bedroom, telephoned over to ask if he could come and join the game. The defects of Tirana, plus His Majesty's extreme addiction to chain-smoked...
Finally Prince Consort Bernhard and Crown Princess Juliana take up their residence in Soestdyk, the castle left by her late reigning grandmother Queen Emma. Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina has intervened to prevent enthusiastic subjects from presenting a 300-ft. seagoing yacht, but a 100-ft. yacht has been given as a wedding present, just right for safely cruising Dutch canals...
That deeply grieving widower, young King Leopold III, had his private secretary call correspondents to the Royal Palace last week, made a denial as rare as Queen Mary's one & only (TIME, Dec. 21). "His Majesty is greatly disturbed over reports carried in an English Sunday newspaper that His Majesty is engaged to marry a niece of the King of Denmark," said the private secretary. "I am instructed to make formal denial of this rumor and all similar rumors. That is all, gentlemen. I need not remind you that various news sources in the past month have set afloat...
...hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing police. In 1934 he staggered Britain's bluebloods by declaring from his seat in the House of Lords: "This House is a farce...
...England there is only one producer of raw silk on a practical scale, and she is Lady Millicent Zoe Hart Dyke, nee Bond, wife of Engineer Sir Oliver Hamilton Augustus Hart Dyke, Bart. At present her small industry is enjoying brisk business, for the new Queen and the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent have patriotically-commanded that their coronation gowns be made of British silk...