Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Industries Fair last week: News cameramen have just snapped the Queen Mother, King & Queen, Duke & Duchess of Kent and are turning away as the Princess Royal arrives...
...MEMBER OF THE ROYAL PARTY: "Yes, sea-otter is only within the means of Lord Derby and American millionaires...
This becomes an international front-page sensation for several days as the Brooklynites trip over each other in contradictory stories about "how we met the whole gosh-darned Royal Family all at once-not even Mrs. Simpson ever did that!" They agree that Queen Elizabeth asks practical questions, that the Duchess of Kent is a raving beauty, that King George finally turns from them to ask his Royal Family: "How about having lunch...
Next day came, but to Marche-les-Dames went no King Leopold, no Prince Charles, no Queen Mother Elisabeth, not a single member of the Government. Reason for this sudden change of royal plans was that the Rexists, Belgium's two-year-old Catholic-Fascist party, decided at the last minute to use the occasion for a mass rally. Because royalty must be above politics, King Leopold and his entourage stayed at home while 5,000 Rexists rallied at the Death spot. Though Rexists take their name from the Latin Rex (King), they are not the King...
...irresolute King Carol, strutted bravely at Bucharest, an amazing Balkan bantam who had tut-tutted Der Führer and Il Duce. Next came crash!-and CRASH!-the replies of Berlin and Rome. The angry Dictators in almost identical telegrams slapped King Carol in the face by telling the Royal Rumanian Government officially that the envoys of Germany and Italy had attended in their private capacity "the funeral of the two heroes" and that no ground for asking their recall existed. Friends of Mme Lupescu, "Smartest Woman in the Balkans," were inclined to admit that last week she had "perhaps...