Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Gaston Doumergue to the "French Summer White House," which is, as every tourist knows, the once royal Chateau de Rambouillet...
...majesty King Albert of the Belgians appeared as a petitioner by proxy, last week, before the august British Courts of Chancery. Humbly the Royal Petition was handed up by Solicitor Arthur Trowbridge Keeling. His Majesty besought that the Courts would now distribute the ?173,824 ($844,785) English estate of his late aunt, the Empress Charlotte of Mexico, to her heirs, of whom His Majesty...
...Princess Marie José, sole daughter of Their Majesties, performed upon the cello, last week, before a most select and royal audience. Next day loyal Brabant news organs "learned" that H. R. H.'s performance was "in the highest degree creditable." But scurrilous sheets of the separatist Flemish persuasion "wondered" if H. R. H. does not run through sonatas "rather too often, to the accompaniment of M. Eugène Ysaye, the fiddler...
...wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...Fire, and in the lighting of controlled counter fires to check the progress of the conflagration. That His Majesty's participation was not "bunk" shortly appeared, when a sudden gust of wind drove a shower of sparks in his direction, burning him painfully about the face, singeing royal hair. Thus the Tsar who has never been crowned, because he declares that his people are too poor to bear the expense of Coronation, stood forth, once more, primarily...