Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the two royal grandaunts, Queen Maud of Norway and Louise, Princess Royal, both sisters of the King, rode out to see the newborn unchristened Duchess, ill luck attended them. Their motor car collided with a taxi near Knightsbridge, and only a quick swerve by their chauffeur prevented a serious accident...
...theory that numerous witnesses should be present at royal births came to its perfect flower in the France of Louis XVI. Marie Therese Charlotte, the first child born to that King and Marie Antoinette entered the world in the presence of everyone who could squeeze into her bedroom at the moment of delivery (at least 40). Servants valiantly ejected by the collar many a burly fellow, no longer privileged to remain after the event...
Within the stark-white Royal Palace at Oslo, the capital of Norway, a tall man who carries himself like a ramrod and seldom smiles, waited last week in the expectation that an area several times larger than his present kingdom would soon be added to it. King Haakon VII of Norway knew that the great polar dirigible Norge** ("Norway") would shortly set out to fly over an unexplored area exceeding one-fourth million square miles, the icecap of the world. (See AERONAUTICS.) At the stern of the Norge flies a silk Norwegian flag, the gift of King Haakon and Queen...
...Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905 the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name of the long extinct Norwegian Royal House, Haakon. Sweden, pondering well the power of father-in-law Edward VII, made no serious attempt to block the secession of Norway. Thus Haakon has been called the "chief strategic asset of his people...
Kurt Hetzel was formerly conductor of the Holttheater at Mannheim, of the Stadttheater of Strassburg. He was two years at the Royal Opera House at Munich, three years at the German Opera House at Czernowitz, Roumania. He has lived in Washington for less than a year...