Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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English biographical work), perhaps the greatest "late Victorian" authority on the life of Shakespeare, author of a biography of Edward VII (by request of George V) and of a fiercely criticized biography of Queen Victoria; at London. It was at the suggestion of the great Dr. Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford, that he altered his original name "Solomon Lazarus" to "Sidney Lee" (in order to attain literary eminence more easily...
Whimsical connoisseurs of Victorianism chuckled and rubbed their hands last week as the London firm of Longmans, Green & Co.* issued two new volumes of the diaries and correspondence of Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow...
...Presumably Victoria's consort. Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
Married. Constance Talmadge, famed cinema actress; to Captain Alastair William Macintosh, aristocratic aviator, once gentleman-in-waiting to the Princess Beatrice (daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of the Queen of Spain); at San Mateo, Calif. In 1922 she was divorced from John Pialogiou, Greek...
...first wife, the Princess Margaret Victoria, daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, had died in 1920. Princess Louise of Mountbatten heeded his "rational wooing," married him in 1923, bore him a child which did not live last May, has proved a kindly step-mother to his four sons and his daughter Ingrid...