Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shanters and tartans flooded Edinburgh with color one day last week. Doughty Scots by the hundreds had climbed out of bed before it was light and flocked into the streets to see a unique pageant-the state arrival of the first Scottish Queen to sit on the British Throne...
...splendidly sentimental as that which drew a swank crowd of Londoners last week to Sotheby's auction rooms in Bond Street. Cherished by four generations of the House of Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants...
Married. Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, 30, invalid onetime heir to the throne of Spain; to Marta Rocafort, handsome daughter of a Havana dentist; in Havana...
Albert, the obedient Duke of York, succeeded his brother to the throne of Britain six months ago with an understanding from the British Government that henceforth his name should be George. Last week, again at the suggestion of the British Government, obedient George VI, born Dec. 14, 1895, celebrated his birthday. From now on, it was announced, the official birthday of George VI shall be June...
...with all this, Rightist Franco cannot now finally sweep Spain, Germany and Italy will probably abandon him, but not the Rightist principle. Diplomatically they may move for a compromise which will restore one of the sons of Alfonso XIII (probably Don Juan, the healthiest) to the throne of Spain, counting on the backing of Britain who is eager for anything that will halt the threat of a general European...