Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lucerne, with a mysterious lady who is really Zyzis and Princess Helen, unless she is a Roumanian-Italian-Polish-Jewess of high rank whom he met while attending Queen Alexandra's funeral. He is concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden...
Married. Miss Frances Davison, daughter of the late famed financier Henry Pomeroy Davison (partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. and Wartime head of the American Red Cross), sister of F. Trubee Davison (Chairman of the National Crime Commission), to Ward-Chney, son of famed silk merchant Charles Cheney; at Locust Valley...
Engaged. Arthur Cheney Train, 50, famed novelist, author of The Needle's Eye, His Children's Children, etc.; to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of James W. Gerard, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany...
Peter's older brother, Ivan, is a moron; his sister, Sofia, is grasping for the throne. His mother's lover, Prince Galizyn, has been inherited by Sofia. A Prussian lieutenant tutors Peter in the palace at Preobrashensk. One day tailors arrive. Peter is outfitted and taken to Moscow. Ivan is dead. Peter is proclaimed Tsar...
...Peter stalks into the Council of State. With his dagger he nails to the table a paper in his sister's hand. She has signed it "the Autocrat of All the Russias...