Word: annunziata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Golden Fleece of Spain, Knight of the Order of the Annunziata of Italy...
...Only a score of Italians are members of the Order of the Annunziata, headed by His Majesty, and only their wives have the right to be called "Her Excellency...
Every Cabinet Minister is "His Excellency" but in Italy last week the title "Her Excellency" was restricted by drastic decree to the wife of Premier Benito Mussolini and wives of other members of the Order of the Annunziata, most exalted in Italy. Besides // Duce only 20 other persons comprise the Order, including 18 of the blood royal and Pietro Cardinal Gasparri...
...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, Chief and Sovereign of the Supreme Order of the Annunziata, Hon. Colonel in the Spanish and Hon. General in the Swedish Army, Hon. Doctor of Laws (University of Philadelphia), sought last week through representatives before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York to prove that he is the heir of one Antonio Comincio, a Manhattan peddler who died in 1925 leaving an estate...
King and Dictator call each other "cousin" because they are both members of the Order of Annunziata, all members of which are "cousins of the king" by a pretty fiction of Italian...