Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference Franklin Roosevelt was asked what he thought of Royal...
Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The massed bands and drums were in the centre, and, flashing silver, blue and scarlet, in the southeast corner mounted troops of the Royal Horse Guards and Life Guards...
Onto the parade ground rode the royal procession. King George came first as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadiers, with the bright blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest. Behind rode his aides: the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, the Earls of Athlone and Harewood and Prince Arthur of Connaught, behind them again, a patchwork of bright color, gilt and jangle, all the foreign military attaches. Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled. Princess Elizabeth waved...
From Vienna, Rome. Zurich and Paris five eminent medical specialists hustled last week to the Carpathian Mountain royal palace at Sinaia, Rumania. The patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania...
Since Marie's latest physicians were scientists of unimpeachable integrity, their communique did much to explode one of the wildest palace yarns to emerge in Europe since the War. The illness of Queen Marie happened to precede the expulsion of slack-chinned former Prince Nicholas from the royal family and from Rumania. Bucharest gossips, who enjoy exercising the most heated imaginations in the world, were thus encouraged to circulate the following melodrama...