Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jagged cakes of ice jostled each other in the Danube last week as lights flashed in the Royal Palace overlooking Budapest where statesmen sat down to nibble caviar and quaff champagne. The party was a meeting of the Rome Protocol States, organized over three years ago when Benito Mussolini succeeded in more definitely attaching Austria and Hungary to Italy as satellites. What was afoot was a whole series of moves by Fascists and Fascist sympathizers: 1) against Leftist Spain; 2) against the League of Nations; 3) against Communism; and 4) against France...
...fact that the bride is German pleased truculent Greek Dictator General John Metaxas, an outspoken admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, whose brashness makes the Greek Royal Family, all handsome and high-strung as greyhounds, shudder. From England the bridegroom's first cousin Princess Marina, beauteous Duchess of Kent, brought a sprig from the favorite myrtle tree of Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of the bride. From Doom portly Prince Oscar, son of Wilhelm II, brought a sprig of orange blossom from the orangerie of the one-time Kaiser, grandfather of Princess Frederika who wore both sprigs...
...bishops officiating in dazzling, bejeweled regalia-Greek guests in the Cathedral seemed to be chiefly fascinated by the fact that the pale blue satin Paris gown of the Duchess of Kent was closed all the way down the front with a zipper. After the Orthodox wedding the royal pair were joined in holy matrimony a second time by a Lutheran pastor from Germany, then went to be legally married by civil authorities and the bride was recorded to have changed her name from the German Frederika to the Greek Margaritas. Driving off in a golden coach lent them...
...ment a $100,000 mansion, unexpectedly delayed in construction so that Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
Commander Dimutriscu radioed: "His Royal Highness is quite all right except that he is seasick." Soon the Commander reported that large floating blocks of ice, whipped by a howling gale, had "decommissioned the rudder...