Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once upon a time Queen Victoria thought she had made quite a good Page of Honor out of little Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby. The child seldom sniveled?a great point in his favor with Her Majesty?and presently he showed more smartness than most in fetching her Bible and carrying her "salts." Moreover Page Ponsonby had good blood, the blue of his maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service...
...method of demonstration and of proof adopted by Queen-Empress Victoria's onetime Page of Honor is to range widely and exhaustively over the material of post-War documents and disclosures, culling testimony from the very statesmen under whom the War lies were forged and used as deadly weapons. Citing chapter and verse, page and line, Laborite Ponsonby produces the following five "proofs" of his above five assertions...
...extremely rare is even the slightest variation in Queen Mary's health that last week the Empire was not unmoved when it was known that Her Majesty had a "slight cold...
...Reassuring was the departure from Buckingham Palace last week of Their Majesties' only daughter, Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles. who returned to her country seat, Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. Throughout the King's illness Princess Mary had constantly remained with the Queen...
...there would be profits in advertising cinema actors like "legit" actors, he fought to break the trust. While his wife sold her jewels and friends loaned their savings, he moved into a new apartment, bought an automobile, rented offices in the Times Building, Manhattan, and presented Sarah Bernhardt in Queen Elizabeth at the Lyceum Theatre...