Word: tsarina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Busy little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria and his sloe-eyed Italian Tsarina were completely dumbfounded, as was everyone else in Sofia last week, when the capital suddenly went Communist...
Only males can suffer haemophilia. Only females can transmit it. Mysterious and incurable,? this rare disease blighted the last of the Romanovs as it blights the last of the Bourbons. Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina...
...last three queens of England have all known comparative poverty in girlhood. Everyone remembers that Alexandra was the daughter of a petty prince who by a fluke became King of Denmark, and that she used to scrimp and help her sister make dresses before the latter became the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first cousin, the Duchess...