Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Westminster?from the residence of the sovereign to the assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke of Clarence), elevated his younger brother George from the post...
...British Royal House changed from Hanover to Saxe-Coburg und Gotha by the marriage of Queen Victoria to a prince of the latter house. On Jan. 17, 1917, "the House of Windsor" was arbitrarily created...
...about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted with calm approval last week that when H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke...
Last week this most notorious of Queen Victoria's grandchildren made a gesture somewhat Edwardian in its expansiveness; he expended a sum estimated at 40,000 florins ($16,000) upon the celebration of his 67th birthday; he received 300 telegrams of congratulation...
...Robert S. Conway, Hulme Professor of Latin at Victoria University in Manchester, England, will come to the University during the second half of 1926-27 as Visiting Lecturer on Greek and Latin, it was announced yesterday by the College authorities. Professor Conway is a distinguished classicist whose works have been widely circulated through this country...