Word: princess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railway officials, and hoped that this would be his last journey alone. It was understood in Sofia that Tsar Boris's official matchmaker, gallant General Ivan Wolkoff, was in Rome arranging for the marriage of Tsar Boris with the King of Italy's daughter Giovanna. Pictures of Princess Giovanna appeared in Sofia shopwindows. Newspapers said that a compromise had been reached with the Vatican whereby the first male child of Princess Giovanna and Tsar Boris might be educated in the Orthodox faith if the other children were Roman Catholic, and so comply with the Bulgarian Constitution which expressly...
Gamle Oslo. Until last week no royal marriage had taken place in Oslo since the 16th Century, when King James VI of Scotland there espoused Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway in 1589. Historic Gamle† Oslo was founded by potent Harold Haardraada about 1050, and petite Princess Martha comes to reign-eventually-over a proud little city which was already old when her own rich and extensive Stockholm was founded upon mud flats and granite in 1255 by Birger, Jarl (Earl) of Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall...
...eight bridesmaids were divided evenly between Sweden and Norway, and only one was royal, Princess Ingrid, only daughter of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Fröken Irmelin Nansen, daughter of Polar Explorer Fridtjof Xansen, was Norway's premier bridesmaid. The others: Swedish, Elsa Steuch, Alfhild Ekelund, Madeleine Carleson; Norwegian, Ranghild Fearnley, Elizabeth Broch. Wedel Jarlsberg. Froken Jarlsberg is the daughter of the great Court Chamberlain, and Froken Ekelund's father was the late fabulously rich Swedish industrialist. Gunnar Ekelund. The pale and puffy blue stuff of which all eight dresses were made was the gift of Princess...
...Excellency the U. S. Minister, Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn.; 2) from the city of Oslo, a set of books by Norwegian authors; 3) from the city of Stocknolm, a diamond tiara of 956 stones; 4) from the Norwegian Society, a Grand piano, especially requested by Princess Märtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian Government, a silver punch bowl; 7) from the Norwegian Storting a pair of silver candlesticks and probably an increase in Crown Prince Olaf's yearly...
...ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married Princess Philiberta of Savoy, aunt of Francis...