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...would have been in the bedroom, but this was 1926: Sir William waited decently outside with the nervous father, His Royal Highness, the Duke of York. Presently a small pink bundle was brought to them. Sir William peered. The bundle, third in line of succession to a royal throne, yawned magnificently. Satisfied of the infant's royalty, Sir William hurried off to break the news to the Lord Mayor of London...
Since that day, nearly 21 years ago, H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor has moved two steps nearer the throne, and has learned, among other things, never to yawn in public officials' faces...
...many a dusky African subject of King George, Queen Victoria is still remembered as "The Great She-Elephant across the Big Water." The prospect of another Queen Regnant on the British throne is scarcely less fascinating to George's white subjects. England has had only five ruling Queens since 1066, and none of their reigns has been quiet. There is an old belief in Britain that she always prospers when there is a woman on the throne...
With one flailing, devastating arm, a plucky Adams House boy named Tommy Bodgett clubbed his way to the University 155-pound class boxing throne last night with a T.K.O. over Somerby Dowat of Lowell House in one minute and 40 seconds of the second round of a three-stanza championship bout in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Died. Prince Marcantonio Colonna, 66, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne (highest honorary office a Catholic layman can hold at the Vatican court), head of one of the oldest, most powerful families of Italy's Black-bluebloods; after long illness; in Rome...