Word: royale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Prince Mihai. Cake is sometimes eaten for breakfast in Rumania, and Mihai sat down to steaming coffee and a cake with 18 candles. He is thus of age and under the Rumanian Constitution automatically became a Senator, as do all crown princes of the Rumanian Royal Family on attaining their majority...
...Cultural Merit went to Helen Malxa, attractive and always well-chaperoned daughter of one of Rumania's richest industrialists. Anxious to damp scandal, Court functionaries maintained last week that the "platonic summer romance" of Mihai and Helen is now over. A few months ago they claimed that "His Royal Highness and Miss Malxa have never...
...Royal" in the drawings might be the carrier Glorious: she is certainly not Ark Royal, which has a full flight deck. The escorting battleship, aside from being in an unlikely position (aft of the carrier instead of ahead, shielding her), resembles no known British ship (her two masts carry big fire-control tops at the same level...
...more dramatic and specific than this blurry photograph was a series of drawings made by Artist Theo Matejko for the official German Army journal Die Wehrmacht. They represented "official German eyewitness accounts" of the bombing of Ark Royal during an air raid on the British Home Fleet in the North Sea last September. Official British report by Prime Minister Chamberlain: "No British ship was damaged. . . . All of them, Ark Royal included, are carrying out their normal duties, sublimely unconscious of these rumors...
...fluent romantic style, Theo Matejko works usually in charcoal. Aged 45, famed in Berlin as the driver of a white Mercédès racing car, he has flown this year with Nazi sea raiders but does not claim to have seen the alleged bombing of Ark Royal. This may account for considerable artistic license...