Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually discreet Prince "Benno" stayed home. Bands blared and standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged...
Engaged. Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 27, LL.D. (Leyden), thick-legged heiress to the throne of the Netherlands; and Prince Bernard of Lippe of Germany, 25, lawyer, employe of the German dye trust, nephew of Prince Leopold IV. Since she reached her majority no more burning issue has Holland had than the question of wholesome Juliana's consort...
...Katherine Elkins Hitt, 50, racehorse owner, much-publicized daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Stephen Benton Elkins; in Manhattan. Long courted by the late Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, she reputedly passed him up when he failed to get the throne of Albania...
...including Edward VIII. The royal panorama starts with Henry VIII (Frank Cellier) on his deathbed, cursing his courtiers and appointing his successor. Most formidable source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword's point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties...
Every train and plane from the Balkans brought to Britain last week pictures of King Edward looking really happy for the first time since he came to the Throne. Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American...