Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless one or more of the doctors who saved the life of George V will eventually be honored-but not this time. The only doctor to receive a peerage last week is Sir Berkeley Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. A coincidence of the week was that three days before the honors list was published, Sir Berkeley achieved terrific notoriety and put his name in screaming headlines by lecturing on Medicine and War before the London Authors' club. On his word of honor...
...wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed as long as possible under the designation "Mr. A," and it was not until last year that Queen Mary restored the Maharaja to general English esteem by welcoming him publicly to the Royal Box at Ascot. Cinema cameras caught the whole party smiling and chatting amiably, with no trace of squeamishness or shame on anyone's face...
...recently sold to an English review a cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment "because the inventor was both an American and a Jew." His courage was such that his insinuations-although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians-were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...
Guardedly whispered was a bit of palace gossip that the youngest of the Royal Infantas, Princess Maria Christina-17 and high strung-almost fainted when her father, the King, invoked an old Spanish custom and bade her assist him to prepare for burial the corpse of Queen Maria Christina, after whom the Princess was named...
...nine days after laying his mother to rest, His Majesty remained in his personal suite at the Palacio Real in Madrid, and would not allow any member of the Royal Family to leave the palace. Since he has emerged from these days of meditation and prayer, Alfonso de Bourbon has seemed listless and melancholic. Last week it was thought that General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera has found this royal mood a favorable one in which to induce the King to sign several more decrees strengthening the Rivera grip of iron on Spain...