Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the King-Emperor lay battling for life in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Dec. 3, et seq.), the royal and imperial authority was exercised in an adjoining room by the Regency Council, presided over by Queen Mary. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture rushed to news-publications "for immediate release" the text of "An Order in Council issued at Buckingham Palace on Dec. 21, 1928," and apparently just discovered by the Department...
Exemplifying the very essence of august Sovereignty, this Order in Council, duly signed by Her Majesty the Queen-Empress, reads...
Presently the dead Queen was laid out in the Chapel Royal, garbed in the simple robes of a nun. Thus it was recalled that Maria Christina was in her youth a member of an Austrian order, and used to plight her vows twelve months at a time to Jesus the Christ. She had intended to become permanently the Savior's bride, but in the nick of time King Alfonso XII of Spain arrived to seek a spouse at the court of her father's cousin, Emperor Franz Josef, and the young Prinzessin's destiny was altered...
Returning to Madrid with his bride, King Alfonso XII, who had been a childless widower, swiftly begot two daughters, but died in 1885 without knowing whether or not he had begotten a son. Three months passed. The elder daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, 5, was then a Queen-Babe under her mother's regency. Suddenly the royal physicians proclaimed, amid prodigious Spanish rejoicings, that the Queen Mother was certainly with child. Thereafter excitement was intense and betting unrestrained. Would it be a mere girl, or was there actually stirring in the royal widow a KING...
When sealed, the simple mahogany box lined with lead was placed upon a catafalque. Splendrously a mass was sung. Then reverent hands lowered the Queen Mother to her last rest in the Panteon de los Reyes. There many a sovereign of Spain?including Maria Christina's husband, Alfonso XII?already, lay, each in a black marble sarcophagus lettered in gold. Into a similar sarcophagus went Maria Christina Henrietta Desiree Felicite Réniére de Espana...