Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night a motor car and relays of chauffeurs were kept at the disposal of the Prince. Though refusing all public engagements and most private, H.R.H. kept himself in trim by a daily game of squash racquets with the Duke of York at the Royal Automobile Club. As head of the Regency Council the "High and Mighty Prince" acted pro-tempore with the authority of King and Emperor-except that he did not possess the power of creating Peers, dubbing Knights...
...Manhattan, rich Brigadier General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt entertained last week His Royal Highness Prince George, youngest son of George V, prior to his sailing on the Cunarder Berengaria for Southampton, home...
Elected. Sir William Llewelyn, English artist; to be President of the Royal Academy, narrowly defeating famed Portraitist Sir William Orpen...
...foibles? Profoundly religious, she had resisted a change of faith, then, suddenly veered, passionately to avow Greek orthodoxy-was it for love of the Cesarevitch, or for ulterior reasons? Considering the influences of liberalism, political if not moral, at her British grandmother's court-would she encourage her royal spouse to grant a constitution? In any event, the poor child was to be pitied coming as she did to a gloomy court that awaited the death of Alexander...
...Significance. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was variously accused of misguiding her royal spouse, of sympathizing traitorously with her Vaterland during the War, of antagonizing the Russian aristocracy, and terrorizing the peasantry-in short, of causing downfall to the Russian empire. That this one woman should be held responsible for the inevitable revolt against centuries of abuse is patently ridiculous. But she served as convenient symbol-though less charmingly than Marie Antoinette...