Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the great day came Princess Elizabeth, expecting her child in mid-November, stayed behind at Buckingham Palace. She was looking out of a window when the Irish State Coach (built for Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin) left the palace gate. Londoners packed along the procession route stopped blowing their noses and forgot the biting October wind. A rustling murmur went up: "Here they come...
...REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA (437 pp.) -Hector Bolitho -Macmillan...
When Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria appeared, at the dawn of the debunking '20s, many critics deplored its un-Victorian tone and sardonic bias. Now, time has so mellowed Strachey's lèse-majesté that his biography has been accepted both as a classic study of Victorianism and a human portrait of the great Queen...
Added Sir Leigh Ashton, director of London's Victoria & Albert Museum: "After all, painters have always sought to make an object.Very often they have taken a subject too; but if only this mythical layman could be persuaded instead of looking at the subject to look at the object [the painting itself], he might then be able to appreciate . . . difficult pictures...
...Kaiser's other children: Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince Eitel Friedrich (died 1942), Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim (died 1920) and Princess Victoria Louise...