Word: tomislav
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when buxom Queen Marie of Jugoslavia has a son, Great Britain's Duke of York packs his bags and travels to Belgrade to act as Godfather and represent the British Royal Family at the christening. He went when Crown Prince Peter was christened, he went again when Prince Tomislav was christened (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But last week when Queen Marie's third son was about to be christened at Castle Bled, the Duke of York, though invited, stayed at home, delegated his second cousin, onetime Queen Elizabeth of Greece, to be chief sponsor in his place...
...dominant race. Therefore the first son of Their Majesties?their chubby, five-year-old Crown Prince?bears the grand old Serbian name of PETER. When a second man-child was born (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928) the Croats got their innings, for the babe was soon Croatianly christened TOMISLAV. With Serbs and Croats satisfied it was high time, last week, to think of appeasing the Slovenes. Anxiously Queen Marie and King Alexander examined the relative merits of such typically Slovenic names...
...Royal Majesty, buxom and doubly blessed, has presented Jugoslavia with Bonny Crown Prince Peter, 5, and with lusty, burbling Prince Tomislav...
...year later King Alexander married Princess Marie of Rumania, daughter of Queen Marie. They have two sons, bonny Prince Peter, 6, and baby Prince Tomislav, 13 months. The King and Prince Peter are extremely popular, notably cheerful. As for Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, she has confided to one or two newspaperwomen, among them the wife of a U. S. novelist famed for flaying Babbitts, much which they have never put into despatches. On Aug. 25, 1926, the Associated Press carried Her Majesty's reply to the question: "How does it feel to be a queen...
From the train descended the now rather portly Queen of Jugoslavia. She was preoccupied with her newborn son. Prince Tomislav (TIME, Jan. 30). Soon Marie of Rumania and the various ladies in waiting were grouped about a bundle that gurgled and cooed. The diversion left His Majesty, King Mihai and His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Peter to themselves...