Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicholas the Last came under the influence of the notorious "Black Monk" Rasputin because he could control-it is said by hypnotism-the haemophilia of the Tsarevitch Alexis. Not until the assassination of Rasputin and the execution of the Romanovs did History have done with that dark incident. Today Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain is said to repose a strong intuitive faith in a certain obscure Catalonian doctor whom she hopes may be able to cure the haemophilia of her first born, Don Alfonso, 21, Prince of the Asturias, and heir to Alfonso XIII's throne...
Anxiously watching the strange Rumanian drama of last week from Godstone, near London, King Mihai's ineffectual father, Prince Carol (eldest son of Dowager Queen Marie), who would be King at this moment had he not chosen to abdicate (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and live abroad with a titan-haired Jewess, Mme. Magda Lupescu. Carol, who now aspires to regain powers which he too lightly cast away, said last week: "I didn't leave my country for love of Mme. Lupescu. It's all a lie to say so.† What man would renounce a throne because...
...sluggard peasants to action, began: "Rumanians, do not forget King Ferdinand's son! [i. e., Carol]." The likelihood that a Carol coupe de leaflets could have succeeded seemed nil to persons who observed that at Alba Julia the peasants carried and displayed pictures of King Mihai and Dowager Queen Marie, but none of Carol...
...Dowager Queen Marie has said...
...clown; he winces and tears muddy his eyes when thousands crowd around him and go into hysterical laughter. One girl, Dea (Mary Philbin), loves him and does not laugh at him; she is blind. Another old girl, Duchess Josiana, lusts for him because of his strange disfiguration. Queen Anne hates the duchess and tries to humiliate her by restoring Gwynplaine to his place in the peerage. There follows a superb scene: Gwynplaine appears in the House of Lords, first infuriating the members, then causing them to slap their gouty limbs in merriment. Disgusted, Gwynplaine returns to the lovely, blind...