Word: frederika
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...think I feel better," he said. A few hours later, he died. Her eyes red-rimmed from lack of sleep, Queen Frederika kissed her dead husband, then tearfully turned to her son, now King Constantine II, and said: "May you reign with his benediction...
...years after the Greek electorate called his older brother George back to the throne, Paul married his youthful German cousin, Princess Frederika of Hanover, 16 years his junior, in an elaborate royal wedding in Athens. But royal housekeeping lasted only until the German Wehrmacht blasted into Greece in 1941. With his wife and two small children, Princess Sophie and Prince Constantine, Paul fled to Crete, then to Cairo, and finally to South Africa, where his third child, Princess Irene, was born...
...Bird rattles off facts and figures. In the Lincoln bedroom, she points out Lincoln's handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address, one of five in existence. She leads her guests through the Rose Room, noting that Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana of The Netherlands, Elizabeth II of England and Frederika of Greece all slept there during their U.S. visits. In the Treaty Room, she shows the ladies an immense chandelier that Jackie Kennedy retrieved from Capitol Hill; Teddy Roosevelt, Lady Bird said, had sent it to the Hill because its noisy tinkling bothered him, and he figured it might help...
...achievements are not ascribable merely to the accident of birth, but to qualities which many women must cultivate today: perseverance, courage, intellectual concern." With that citation, Columbia University conferred an honorary doctor of laws degree on Queen Frederika of Greece, 46. And having thus started her private 17-day visit to the U.S., the charming, capable Queen and her daughter Princess Irene, 21, turned to shopping and socializing. With Sister Sophie married and Brother Constantine engaged, reporters wondered if Irene would soon head down the aisle. "No, no," smiled Frederika. "I must keep one for myself...
Born. To Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 25, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie, 25, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika: their first child, a daughter; in Madrid...