Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ward celebrated her 92nd birthday by bringing out a fat volume of reminiscences, Memories of go Years*. Still active with the brush and able to receive many visitors in her small house in Chelsea's art colony, she recalls the guns saluting the coronation of Queen Victoria when she was a child of six, the assistance offered her by Wilkie Collins on the occasion of her elopement at the age of 16 with E. M. Ward, R.A., also an artist, her stay at Windsor Castle in 1857 when she was commissioned to paint the portrait of the infant Princess...
Went the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary and Governor General of South Africa with his wife, Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria's youngest son, the Duke of Albany, to the Transvaal for some hunting...
King Vittorio Emmanuele and Queen Elena of Italy left London whence they went on a State visit (TIME, June 9), for Madrid to return the visit made to them in Rome by King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain (TIME, Sept...
...Prefecture and then as Prefect, successively, of the Departments of the Aube, Doubs and Nord. After that he joined the Corps Diplomatique. He became French Minister Plenipotentiary to Tunis; Ambassador to Madrid, Constantinople and, in 1898, Ambassador to London, where he lived during the reigns of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V. His task at London was not simple. The Fashoda incident* was a sore point between France and Britain; but this pearl of ambassadors finally managed to smooth things over, and if not too well, he at least avoided a rupture of peaceful relations. . He was now free...
...Dover, the Prince of Wales welcomed the distinguished visitors and traveled with them to Victoria Station, where were assembled King George...