Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Them orbs of royal blue...
Coats: "The trained eye is caught at once by the rare lapels of the royal coats. Often these sections are hard and flat; but in the King's coats they turn over gently like a leaf or the petals of a flower...
Death closed, last week, "them orbs of royal blue." They were the eyes of Her Majesty the Queen-Mother Maria Christina. During the Spanish-American War she was Regent of Spain for her stripling son, the present sprightly King Alfonso XIII. Surely all U. S. gentlefolk who ever gloated over the U. S. defeat of Regent Christina's forces must feel a little sheepish as they view again her picture (see cut). Spaniards know that Queen Christina combined the majesty and mass of a Roman Emperor with the devout, portly sweetness of a Mother Abbess...
Very merrily the Spanish Royal Family watched a comic cinema, last week, in the Palado Real at Madrid, a few hours before Death came. Their good humor was increased by the prospective arrival, on the morrow, of King Christian and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark. There would be fetes, galas and good cheer-for Danes are the wittiest and most light-hearted of Scandinavians. The eyes of the Spanish Infantas would sparkle as they trotted to jazz strains in the arms of blond courtiers from Copenhagen. And as the counterpoise, the pivot of all this gayety, there would be the Queen...
Presently the dead Queen was laid out in the Chapel Royal, garbed in the simple robes of a nun. Thus it was recalled that Maria Christina was in her youth a member of an Austrian order, and used to plight her vows twelve months at a time to Jesus the Christ. She had intended to become permanently the Savior's bride, but in the nick of time King Alfonso XII of Spain arrived to seek a spouse at the court of her father's cousin, Emperor Franz Josef, and the young Prinzessin's destiny was altered...