Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, is the third son of Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...
...pained and indignant that it is possible for anyone to spread such idiotic and calumnious tales," said the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, scotching a report that Princess Ileana, her youngest daughter, had eloped with a married but fascinatingly handsome naval lieutenant and, balked, had tried to commit suicide...
...scurrilous story had it that the love affair began last summer. The strong-willed "mother-in-law of the Balkans," Queen Marie, discovered it and Ileana's "cherub," one Paius, was sent posthaste back to his ship in the Black...
...roaring escort for him; not, at least, to equip the escort with sirens. Prince Wilhelm said that he would find "such a racket very annoying." So the Chicago City Council, which has listened with pride to earsplitting, mile-a-minute escorts for Roman Catholic cardinals at the Eucharistic Congress, Queen Marie of Rumania, fisticuffers, gas merchants and almost every least journey of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, decreed that hereafter siren-blowing police escorts would be accorded only U. S. Presidents, kings, queens and-as despatches put it-"others of real distinction." Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was allowed...
Interest centred on Giuseppa (Josephine) Andaloro, mother of three sons and four daughters, together ringleaders of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. She, a toothless, white-haired hag, was called the Queen of the Mafia gangs. Her word was law. Dressed in a man's clothes, she was wont to ride around the country marking out victims for the Mafia. She it was who ordered murders, robberies, extortions, ambushings, torture, kidnappings. None dared disobey her commands...