Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What could the Rumanian Government do? Princess Ileana is not in line for the Throne, has a private fortune of $260,000, and is of age. The King of England can forbid the marriage of any member of the Royal Family, but the King and the Government of Rumania have such power only where the marriage involves the Throne. Moreover Dowager Queen Marie backed her daughter, called Count Alexander "an extremely sympathetic person, especially welcome to me because of his English blood."?His mother was Mary Theresa ("Daisy") Cornwallis-West, kinswoman of the English Earl De La Warr...
Ever since he ascended the Papal throne in 1922 Pope Pius XI has employed every weapon in his spiritual arsenal to stop Russia's cold-blooded anti-religion campaign. He has placed Russia under the particular care of St. Therese. His commission on Russian affairs has forged new and special weapons of prayer, indulgence, invocation, propaganda. Last week His Holiness startled all Europe with a bitter denunciation. To his vicar general, Cardinal Basilic Pompili, Bishop of Velletri, he wrote...
Engagement Rumored. Tsar Boris Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislas Xavier of Bulgaria; and Princess Kyra Cyrilovna, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, pretender to the throne of the late Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...
...Captain General of Catalonia, Primo de Rivera, marched upon Madrid in 1923 with the "confidence" of his fellow military satraps and? it is generally believed?the connivance of the King. His Majesty thought in 1923 and continued to think last week that extra-Constitutional methods would best bulwark his Throne...
Fanny, the pretty little Burmese-Italian half-caste, was the immediate cause of Mandalay's downfall. When good King Mindon died, and the unscrupulous Supaya-lat married Thibaw, a minor prince, and engineered a coup d'etat which landed him on the throne, his brothers and their supporters in a bloody grave, Fanny, her European maid-of-honor, found herself a favorite. In spite of wholesale massacres not quite drowned out by nightlong music and daylong feasting, Fanny enjoyed those butterfly years. But then she fell in love with Bonvoisin, who had come to the court...