Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches reported semi-officially that the infant will be christened Mary Victoria Elizabeth-after Queen Mary, Queen Victoria and her mother. To the throngs seething in Bruton Street occurred an inescapable question: "Will she ascend the throne as Elizabeth...
Students of probability guessed "No," but recalled that Victoria received the crown upon the death of her father, fourth son of George III, although two of her father's younger brothers were then living...
...British peerage in descending order of rank: Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Barons. There are 28 British dukedoms of which only four have been created since Wellington was made a Duke in 1814. The last dukedom created was that of Fife, in 1900, now held by H. H. Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, wife of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, uncle of George...
...Augusta Victoria. Memories stimulated by this incident recalled that the late Kaiserin was one of the best intentioned and least fortunate of loving mothers, consorts, empresses. Her futile attempts to hold the fickle love or even the attention of Wilhelm II became a byword and a jest at court...
...curtain rises. Two musicians?the first violin and the cellist?are seated, chatting. Conductor Stokowski strolls vaguely in from the wings. He bows. Puzzled applause from the audience?murmurs of "But good heavens, Victoria, where is the orchestra? . . . Down behind that backdrop? . . . I think it is simply too quaint. . . ." That no orchestra lurks behind the backdrop is clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient...