Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brussels. Having arrived promptly and greeted Albert, King of the Belgians, with: "I have heard much of the famous soldier-king of the Belgians" Captain Lindbergh was decorated by his Majesty with the order of Chevalier of the Royal Order of Leopold. Next day, he flew to London...
Citizens of the U. S. know about Buckingham Palace and Versailles, yet cannot, in the main, so much as pronounce the names of those even more costly and unique royal castles of Bavaria: Herrenschiem-see, Hohenschwangau, and Neu-schwanstein. From them ruled the Wittelsbachs, among the most ancient in lineage of modern Germanic kings, a family of genius often tinged with madness. Last week the head of this venerable and royal house, onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, was visited at his Munich home by delegations of thronging, cheering Bavarians who hailed him as "King Rupprecht, our Rightful King...
...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...
England to Australia. Dennis Rooke, onetime member of the British Royal Flying Corps, clad in a grey lounge suit and civilian overcoat climbed in his Moth de Havilland plane last week; set out for Australia, 11,000 miles away. He took along a collapsible bathtub, a few spare parts and maps. He in-tended to make short, leisurely hops. The flight was stimulated by a $10,000 bet, which was later canceled...
There is also a copy of a book by Madame de Pompadour and a number of other books from the library of members of the French royal family. These were all bound by famous French binders, and are largely old red morocco...