Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mummified horses, the first of their kind, have been discovered in a royal tomb at Sakkara, near Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. The tomb was found and first opened last year by members of the Harvard-Boston Museum Expedition...
...city under the impression the Court resides at the late Mr. Carnegie's far more sumptuous Peace Palace. The tastes of the Prince Consort (Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) are likewise circumscribed within the same prudent limits. Hence, when a large appropriation was recently placed at the disposal of the royal pair to be expended on the celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary, the foreign diplomats at The Hague speculated whimsically upon the form which this "celebration" would take...
...Prince Henry, third son of King George, to Lady Mary Scott, fourth daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, will be announced as soon as a decent interval has succeeded the official termination of mourning for Queen Alexandra, which occurred late in the week. Meanwhile Lady Mary and her royal "fiancé by acclamation" were subjected to the usual ruthless publicity...
...Twenty-Five.....................................Twenty English.........................................Scottish Sportsman.......................................Sportswoman "Best Princely Dancer In England"..............."Most Beautiful daughter of a Scottish Duke" Career: Eton; Sandhurst; Royal Rifles;..........Often hostess at the Duke's four seats: Thirteenth Hussars; Tenth Hussars;..............Dalkeith House, Dalkeith; Bowhill, Selkirk; cornerstones; inspections, etc., etc., etc......Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill; Boughton House, .................................................Kettering, Northants Old Family.......................................Older* Family...
Upon her return to Scotland, Mary and her counselors formed ambitious plans for marrying her to Don Carlos, son of morose Philip of Spain, or to the Archduke of Austria, or into the royal family of France. Scotland was the backdoor to England. Queen Elizabeth was determined Mary should make no "mighty marriage," was fertile in expedients, threats, cajolery. Her Scottish Protestant counselors urged her to a decision as to Mary's marriage: "Remember how earnestly she is sought otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction...