Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary drove around the corner from Buckingham Palace to Victoria Station. The morning was cold and misty, but a large crowd was abroad to cheer its Sovereign and his Consort. Many times the King was obliged to lift his "bowler" in acknowledgment of the ovations. Ten minutes later, the boat train with a royal coach attached steamed out of the glass-roofed station, taking their Majesties on their first and well-earned vacation since the accession...
...King's antipathy to taking a voyage at this time, it is almost certain that he will bow to his doctor's orders, which are sure to have the sentimental backing of a majority of the people. Accompanied by the Queen, he will probably leave on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert early this month for a Mediterranean cruise and may possibly spend some of the time with his uncle, the Duke of Connaught,* at the latter's villa near Nice...
Miss Macauley and Queen Victoria on a Desert Isle
...island. Now the islanders, after 70 years of segregated history, had attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral. Antimacassars covered every cocoa-nut-cloth chairback. On the trees about the premises were graven such verses...
...coming here with the intention of overthrowing our republican form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According to newspaper reports, people clamored and paid admission for the purpose of curtseying and kissing the hand of these pretenders (reference to the recent visit of the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (TIME, Dec. 15) in a manner so un-American that it would have been shocking were it not so ridiculously stupid...