Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumored the richest Spaniard, certainly one of the saddest, is old Count de Romanones. He arranged the flight of Alfonso XIII (TIME, April 27). He put Queen Victoria Eugenie, the ailing Crown Prince and the rest of the Spanish Royal Family on a train at Madrid and said the last goodbye. As their glory and his reflected glory faded, the Count sat stunned by his emotions on a railway station bench. Last week Count de Romanones rose courageously in the Socialist and savagely antiMonarchist National Assembly. For perhaps the last time Monarchist de Romanones defended with all his forensic skill...
...time chiefly attracted tipplers and bawds. When the Crimean War broke out in 1854 she got Sydney Herbert, Secretary for War, to commission her to take a corps of nurses to the Scutari hospital in Turkey. There she conquered official red tape and unspeakable conditions, won the approbation of Victoria and the nation. Back home she threatened to publish her Crimean findings unless the War Office bettered military hospitals. She won. Aged 90, her mind gone, she died a sainted legend...
Died. Constance, Lady Battersea, 88, grande dame of the British House of Rothschild, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild who stemmed from the original Frankfort family; in Overstrand, Norfolk, England. A philanthropist, temperance worker, Lady Battersea was a friend of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston...
When a haemophile receives the slightest scratch he begins to bleed profusely and the wound heals so slowly that the haemophile may easily bleed to death. Well ex-King Alfonso knows that ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain transmitted haemophilia to their sickly son. Spain's ex-heir, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias. That the poor boy has lived all these years is a miracle of science and a tragedy. Had the Crown Prince been stronger, unpopular King Alfonso might have abdicated in his son's favor which might perhaps have saved the dynasty...
...Queen Victoria Eugenie did not sympathize. Reliable reports revealed the Spanish Infantas' mother as their champion. She is not, like His Most Catholic Majesty, unalterably opposed to birth control or sterilization. In Paris last week she was understood to have urged her husband strongly to consider all alternatives. Her daughters could enjoy no small degree of happiness as wives with very small chance of giving birth to a haemophile...