Word: vii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welling Tears. Old (75), coal-black Dom Pedro VII had little liking for official functions. He preferred cruising around Rome in a taxi with a couple of photographers. But when the time came for him to meet the Pope, he was determined to carry it off in regal style. Said he: "I shall be the first of my family, which dates from the Pharaohs, to meet the Pope...
...with shields) would not have been too surprised. In the daguerreotypes of his heyday, Sir Luke looked like any well-fed Victorian gent, complete with goatee, chesterfield, and top hat. But he was more: a member of England's Royal Academy and a painter of royalty, including Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and George...
...another old favorite: Spanish Dancer Caroline Otero, once the idol of a dozen capitals and a good many capitalists. Oftenest-told tale of "La Belle Otero" is that Belgium's Leopold II once put her up as stakes in a gambling game with England's Edward VII, lost, and paid. Now in her 70s, still tall and stately, Caroline lives quietly in a small house on an allowance from an old admirer. "I spent the weekend regularly with Edward VII," she reminisced happily last week. "The Kaiser Wilhelm was so much in love with me he was crazy...
Died. The Marchioness of Anglesey, 63, artist daughter of the Duke of Rutland, who more than a generation ago so charmed the Court of Edward VII that Queen Alexandra called her "the most beautiful girl in the Kingdom"; in London...
...sang The Merry Widow's dashing Prince Danilo. Less vocal (for reasons of state), Britain's gamesome King Edward VII and gamey King Leopold II of the Belgians were just as intime chez Maxim. To many another princely sprig, millionaire, archduke and demimondaine of the fey '90s, Maxim's in Paris' rue Royale was the most elegant bistro in Europe, the gaudiest symbol of the mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave...