Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike Stanley Baldwin, Ambassador Howard remembered to pay tribute to Queen Victoria in whose honor Empire Day was started...
...June 3, King George's 64th birthday, there will be trooping of colors, hoisting of flags, prayers of thanksgiving for his health throughout the Empire. Last week Queen Mary was 62. Few people, except the royal family, did much about...
...royalty it was a real family party. Down to Windsor went royal Dukes and Duchesses, Princes and Princesses. Only the Duke of Gloucester, en route from Japan to Canada, failed to appear at the dinner table. Earliest bringers of birthday presents were the Queen's three grandchildren, chubby blonde "P'incess Lilybet and her cousins, Hubert and Gerald Lascelles, Princess Mary's two boys...
...stood as though unobserved. The King, looking greatly improved, chatted briskly with the duke of Connaught. "P'incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice...
...vain were Amanullah's grunts. Frightened by reports of what Bacha Sakao, the usurping bandit-King, was doing to rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife, he fled precipitately over the Indian border. At Bombay, two ambulances stood chugging expectantly at the station. Amanullah, in civilized trousers, looked worried. He was about to become a father for the seventh time. Inayatullah was expecting...