Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Mary, accompanied by Princess Mary and the 60-year-old Princess Victoria, the King's sister, descended at Bognor upon the local Woolworth's threepenny and sixpenny shop...
Both Her Royal Majesty Queen Marie of Jugoslavia and Her Imperial Majesty Empress Nagako of Japan have been announced to be, for the third time each, with child...
...Queen Marie is 30, Empress Nagako...
...Sold in Berlin by a heartless auctioneer was a letter written by the Queen-Empress when she was just Princess Mary of Teck. It was written in 1893, shortly after the death of her first fiance, the Duke of Clarence, and her engagement to his younger brother, the present George V. "The last year has been such a terribly sad one for me," wrote the 26-year-old princess. "It almost seems strange that any kind of happiness could come into my life again. But Georgie is such a dear. The great sorrow we shared has made our bond...
...Bognor village a carpenter stood tip-toe on the counter of a toyshop, nailing shelves to the wall. Glancing casually down under his arm, he was aghast to see his Queen. Her Majesty had just entered with Princess Mary in search of gifts for a charity bazaar. The carpenter, anxious to show respect, tried to doff his cap, but only succeeded in knocking it off. Grabbing for it, he dropped his hammer. The hammer struck his saw, lying on a board, and all crashed to the floor with a great clatter of ironmongery. In an agony of mortification, the carpenter...