Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More select was another political feast, given in Madrid last week by Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond. Present were Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera...
...time being to give due attention to affairs of the realm whereupon the draft of a commission . . . for the transaction of matters and things on behalf of His Majesty was this day read at the board and approved and His Majesty was further pleased to nominate Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; the most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England; the Right Hon. Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, Lord High Chancellor, and the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister...
...Italian of the sixteenth century, describing the story of the nativity is placed in a case beside Milton's poem "On the Morning of the Nativity" offering an interesting contrast in the literature of two nations and two centuries. Several reproductions from the Book of Hours of Joan 11, Queen of Navarre, offer further opportunity to study the fourteenth century style of illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings in some...
...Tsar Nicholas the Last. The Tsaritsa and the Tsar are well known to have fallen a prey to the notorious "Black Monk" and hypnotist Gregory Rasputin, whom they devoutly believed to be the only person capable of curing the Tsarevitch. In Spain rumors have long been irresponsibly current that Queen Victoria Eugenie has employed an obscure Catalonian doctor to attend the Infante Don Alfonso...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Spanish-soprano Lucrezia Bori made her first appearance of the season in Traviata, given under the patronage of the King and Queen of Spain for the benefit of the University City in Madrid. Importantly present in Box No. i were Don Alfonso of Orleans, Infante of Spain, first cousin of the King, his wife the Infanta Beatrice, sister of Queen Marie of Rumania. Ritually they joined the applause for tender, tripping tunes, for tender, tearful tunes. Gladly they heard next day that the performance had earned their home university some...