Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George of Kent returned from Yugoslavia, London papers having it that the Duchess spent most of her time there "resting and sewing'' upon a layette. Until next spring they expect to rusticate at 40-room "Adsdean" in Sussex, loaned by Queen Victoria's Great-grandson Lord Louis Mountbatten who normally rents it for $250 per week...
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...Queen Victoria's only remarks to a phonograph were discovered on a squeaky old Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...
...King George and Queen Mary enjoyed the Cowes Regatta without incident, except that Her Majesty aboard the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert was vexed by a mouse...
...Briton frequently seen by Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George is the new Governor General put forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King...