Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More select was another political feast, given in Madrid last week by Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond. Present were Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera...
...Nicholas the Last. The Tsaritsa and the Tsar are well known to have fallen a prey to the notorious "Black Monk" and hypnotist Gregory Rasputin, whom they devoutly believed to be the only person capable of curing the Tsarevitch. In Spain rumors have long been irresponsibly current that Queen Victoria Eugenie has employed an obscure Catalonian doctor to attend the Infante Don Alfonso...
...night, outside the tall iron fence of Buckingham Palace. Most of the time a chill and dreary drizzle fell, alike upon the silent crowd and on the many twinkling limousines which hurried, one after another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never did Fate mock at a more distinguished company in their impotency...
...England knew that Queen Victoria lived to the age of 80 in Sir Stanley Hewett's care. The great Queen's Grandson, George V, was but 63 last week. His death, thought Britons, would be a sad commentary on the wages of virtue and an upright life. Those Royal libertines, George I, George II and George IV, all died at the age of 67. That Royal part-time madman, George III (reigned 1760-1820; mad 1788-89 and 1811-20) lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would...
...gerndorf meant the 11,500 inhabitants of his tiny (65 sq. mi.) independent principality, smallest in population in Europe. These inhabitants, the Prince well knew, were celebrating the completion of the seventieth year of his reign. The Prince has reigned six years longer than Queen Victoria, two years longer than Emperor Franz Josef, and only two years less than the 72-year regnant King Louis XIV of France...