Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King's democratic remarks, he has appointed Leader of The White Hand General Zivkovitch his Prime Minister. How likely it is that this ruthless militarist will promote democracy appears from his dark record. He was the spruce young lieutenant charged with the personal safety of King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga, in 1903, when they were foully murdered in the royal bedroom of the old palace at Belgrade...
...Petersburg, and shortly after ward a page to his Tsaric majesty Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Presumably he did not know that Lieutenant Petar Zivkovitch was about to unlock, stealthily, a palace back door in Belgrade, and admit the assassin of Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. As a Karageorgevitch, however, Dictator-King Alexander can scarcely fail to see in this deed the hand of Divine (Greek Orthodox) Providence. So great indeed is his faith that, upon ascending the throne, he did not hesitate to make General Zivko vitch commander of the royal guard, a post which...
Royal Family. The enthusiasm of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania for her son-in-law King Alexander is well known. Her Majesty has said...
...year later King Alexander married Princess Marie of Rumania, daughter of Queen Marie. They have two sons, bonny Prince Peter, 6, and baby Prince Tomislav, 13 months. The King and Prince Peter are extremely popular, notably cheerful. As for Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, she has confided to one or two newspaperwomen, among them the wife of a U. S. novelist famed for flaying Babbitts, much which they have never put into despatches. On Aug. 25, 1926, the Associated Press carried Her Majesty's reply to the question: "How does it feel to be a queen...
...insists on playing with coal, mud, paint, and everything else he ought not to play with." Changing the subject, she added, "Like my mother, I try to give as much time to charitable and hospital work as I can; but you have no idea how many other things a queen is called upon...