Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spaniards of chivalrous and patriotic bent fetched dejected sighs, last week, at an authoritative report that the jaunty King Alfonso XIII has been constrained to consult the Vatican with a view to obtaining annulment of his union with Queen Victoria Eugénie, a tall and regal granddaughter of the late, dumpy British Queen-Empress Victoria...
Meanwhile, unfortunate Queen Victoria Eugénie is not likely to forget that she is descended (through her father) from the Teuton family of Hesse-Darmstadt. In the strain of that House abides the dread and mysterious disease, haemophilia...
...upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...German Government proceeded recently to expel him from the Fatherland on the ground that he has no valid passport. Since then he has been in Brussels, Belgium, still wineing and womening without stint, but under threat of momentary expulsion. Thus a problem has been set before doting Princess Victoria-where shall her Zubkov now roister, tweak, and make champagne-rain...
...Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, had been besought to give Zubkov sanctuary. She had received, it was said, a personal and impassioned plea from the doting wife who is, after all, the sister of a onetime German Emperor. Would Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, sympathize with Princess Victoria...