Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cross was erected in honor of the marriage of Victoria, the Princess Royal of England, the Kaiser's mother, to Frederick, the Crown Prince of Prussia...
...some innovator who procures a motorcycle and rides to victory amid envious shouts of "Unfair!" Such an innovator is tall,* big-boned Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, never a seaman but the world's greatest shipman. He towered to international fame (TIME, Dec. 6) when the Royal Mail Line of which he is Chairman bought the White Star. Last week correspondents enthroned him as a personage by cabling to the world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute of Marine Engineers. The speech would not have mattered had it not been so very typical...
...that the inflexible rule forbidding the presence of a female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...Badoglio was marked for death because his friendship for the royal family would have caused the plotters special difficulty...
...Royal Palace at Bucharest burned to the ground one night last week. Meanwhile, at the Cotroceni Palace, surgeons were operating upon King Ferdinand, who was kept in ignorance of the fire. Prince Nicholas watched the blaze, was present when the Throne was carried out to safety and superstitious onlookers cheered, believing its destruction would have blighted the Dynasty. Atop these sensations came another...