Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brother Bert had a way with women and, to the utter amazement of the London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head...
...many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present at the birth, celebrated his twelfth day of waiting at divine service in Kirriemuir ("Thrums" of Sir James Matthew Barrie's stories). At Cowes, Isle of Wight, the royal yacht Victoria & Albert upped her anchor, cut the telephone cable which for three weeks had been directly connected with Glamis Castle...
...Queen Mary remained aboard the steam yacht Victoria & Albert, watched sailors chase ducks, climb greased poles...
Scarcely less famed is the Ardebil carpet, now in London's Victoria & Albert Museum. A body of rich blue with delicate floral tracery surrounds a centre medallion of yellow. Sixteen minaret-shaped points lead to 16 red, gold, and green cartouches. Sacred mosque lamps hang from two of them...
...Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Maria Christina, Queen of Spain, sat down at a table in a Biarritz café. A headwaiter frothed up, was sorry but this table was reserved for the Queen of Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior...