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...great aunt was Alexandra of Britain, another Dagmar, Tsarina of Russia. But no Queen ever lived more simply. All Brussels had seen Astrid time & time again wheeling her own baby carriage along the boulevards on a Sunday morning. Young Leopold as Crown Prince had gone several times to Stockholm to propose to her, traveling in a third-class coach to keep his incognito. There, after their engagement was announced, they used to sit in the public park holding hands...
...away the star is, parallax furnished the first dependable clue to stellar distances. Beginning in 1903, Frank Schlesinger developed such effective photographic methods of parallax measurement that now some 2,000 have been accurately determined. Elected president of the next Congress, to be held in 1938 at Stockholm, was Ernest Esclangon, 59, director of the observatories at Paris and Meudon and Professor of Astronomy at University of Paris...
Never had Stockholm seen so much royalty, felt such excitement. By train and boat they kept piling in until there was scarcely a room in the palace or in any hotel to be had. Nearly out of his mind was Stockholm's chief of police. Law-abiding Swedes are accustomed to see their own royal family shop, go to the theatre, drive about town completely unprotected. Suddenly the chief of police was called upon to produce so many escorts and bodyguards for visiting royalty that he nearly ran out of detectives...
...Belgians. For the first time since the heavy-booted German army marched through his father's capital in 1914, King Leopold was brought face to face with the onetime Crown Prince of Germany. It was carefully arranged that their suites should be at opposite ends of the Stockholm palace, and court attendants were in a dither with excitement. But when they met in the Town Hall, nothing happened...
...bride; a sapphire pendant from George V; and five kroner in cash ($1.25) from an unknown Swedish girl. Because blue is Sweden's royal color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before all the wedding guests, Conductor Sven Lizell of the Stockholm Choral Society dropped dead of heart failure...