Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers, to be used as a summer residence for British premiers...
Considering that the available oil supply within the boundaries of the United States will approach exhaustion at the present rate of consumption within 20 years, and further that the Royal Dutch Shell Company and one or two other groups British or Dutch controlled are at present in possession of four-fifths of the known or exploitable oil supply of the world, two further facts are of significance. The inventor of the process is a German, Dr. Berguis, and his achievement has been made possible by millions of dollars of German backing and two large experimental stations. Moreover an international company...
...Astrid on his arm, to the vast delight of cheering Swedes. On the day before their wedding the couple met at 7 a.m. to begin with a brisk horseback ride a day which closed with a state dinner at the Palace and a gala in their honor at the Royal Opera...
Wedding. On the wedding afternoon resplendent Swedish nobles strode up the staircase of the Royal Palace accompanied by their wives who wore the frumpy white "court dresses" prescribed by Swedish etiquet. Only the ladies of the royal party 'itself were attired as fashion dictates. While the wedding procession formed in an antechamber, King Gustaf of Sweden brought a decorous smile to courtiers' lips peeping out into the Throne Room through the Gobelin portieres. When His Majesty was thus satisfied that all was in readiness, there strode majestically to lead the wedding procession the 80-year-old Court Marshal...
...marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood before him he pronounced almost inaudibly the two-minute civil marriage form ending "In virtue of my office, I now declare you man and wife...