Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serene Highness" was the inferior German title of Prince Bernhard up to the bridal moment. The Dutch pastor, having performed the marriage with the usual Dutch exchange of rings, remarked to the new Prince Consort of The Netherlands, "I may now address you as Your Royal Highness." Amid cheers which made the whole city of The Hague bedlam, the wedding procession wound its way amid Dutch ohs and ahs at the brilliant cavalcade. Then, after luncheon at the Royal Palace, the Prince Consort & Crown Princess managed the impossible. With the connivance of the world press, the newlyweds, ostensibly bound...
...steamed the train, but Their Royal Highnesses were not on it. From The Hague the hotel proprietor received a terse Dutch telegram canceling the honeymoon reservations, explaining "the plans of Their Royal Highnesses have changed." Two days later Their Royal Highnesses were discovered merrily honeymooning in Krynica, a jolly little ski resort in the Carpathian Mountains of Southern Poland...
Incognito as "the Countess & Count von Sternberg," they had brought 21 pieces of luggage including two gramophones, six pairs of skis. Their Royal Highnesses publicly drank whiskey & soda at teatime, insisted on Polish dishes (item: hare in cream with beets) in the dining room. While Bridegroom Bernhard ski-jored behind a sleigh, Bride Juliana skied on a practice slope before a trainer and 47 cameramen, good-naturedly taking frequent spills and crying the only two Polish words she had learned: "Don't photograph!" Considering how ably the world press can hound romantic couples when it wants to, world press...
...newsprint. Her mighty Martinus, who towers so high above dumpy Petronella that the top of her head is just even with his breast pocket, heartily exclaimed, "Ja, we move right into a six-room house-small, but six rooms-for children, Ja!" It was beneath the dignity of the Royal Family to send a wedding present to "The Other Juliana" and they rested upon their royal dignity amid general Dutch satisfaction. WThen Petronella & Martinus went to the village Town Hall for their First-Class wedding the whole countryside had turned out to cheer them but the Vice-Burgomaster, who performed...
...London, where the Duke of Windsor was taking a fresh dive in prestige, his youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, suddenly found himself the target of a press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...