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...steaks were set last week before three very lean and perhaps hungry royal uncles: the kings of Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had come to Stockholm earlier in the week with his parents King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. The host and hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergötland, brother...
...Nuptial Rejoicings. Crown Prince Leopold, who has several times visited Stockholm unrecognized, by traveling third class and entering the apartment of Prince Carl by the back way, strolled about the city last week with Princess Astrid on his arm, to the vast delight of cheering Swedes. On the day before their wedding the couple met at 7 a.m. to begin with a brisk horseback ride a day which closed with a state dinner at the Palace and a gala in their honor at the Royal Opera...
...report was more than premature, for the Caroline Institute of Stockholm, which allots the medical prize, announced immediately that during 1926, as during 1925, there was no work anywhere in the world distinguished enough to warrant its award...
...half of the $100,000,000 issue was snapped up almost as quickly in London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Budapest. The stabilized Belgian franc, now quoted in units of five francs known as belgas, promptly mounted to a fraction over sterling...
Though his Royal Highness spends much time in his hothouses and amid his beehives and poultry runs, he retains a robust interest in sport. Before leaving Brussels for Stockholm he issued instructions that detailed news of the Dempsey-Tunney fight be cabled to him. Interviewed by newsgatherers, he said: "I watched Tunney throughout the American Army boxing championship matches in 1919 [from General Pershing...