Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Westmoreland were received with open arms by the Belgian Royal Family. Mention is made of King Leopold I and of his daughter, Princess Charlotte, later the unhappy Empress of Mexico, now mad and confined in a castle in Belgium (TIME, July 30). In England, glimpses are given of Queen Victoria; Edward VII as the Prince of Wales; the Prince Consort; the Duke of Wellington, grand-uncle of Lady Rose; Gladstone; the great Salisbury, father of Lord Robert Cecil; Robert Browning, poet; Carlyle, brilliant and famous essayist...
...last generation still remembers the Duke's cowardly insult to Queen Victoria, who had previously allowed him to enter the British Army and had shown him many courtesies...
Another London editor is John St. Loe Strachey (not to be confused with Giles Lytton Strachey, author of Queen Victoria, etc.) Mr. Strachey is a son of Sir Edward Strachey. He was graduated from Oxford before entering journalism. He has been editor of The Cornhill Magazine (founded by Thackeray), and at present is editor of The Spectator (London). In politics he is a Conservative. There is no danger of his being ousted from his post; he is proprietor as well as editor of his paper...
Died. Sir James Reid, 73, physician to Queen Victoria and Edward VII, at London...
...Crown Prince was born on November 11, 1882, and was married on June 15, 1905, to Princess Margaret Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Connaught. The Crown Princess died May 1, 1920. There are four sons and one daughter by this union. He is a great-great-grandson of Marshal Bernadotte, Prince of Ponte Corvo, founder .of the present dynasty, who was one of Napoleon's marshals...