Word: astride
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return Herbert Hoover laid wreaths on the tombs of King Albert and Queen Astrid, visited the Royal Palace, forgathered with veterans of the old Commission for Relief in Belgium, said: "I am happy, really happy, to be in Belgium again...
...Leopold, who is now King. In 1935 Britain's present King George and Queen Elizabeth, then Duke & Duchess of York, gave a ball in the British Pavilion at the Brussels Exposition-the last public function at which young King Leopold Ill's dearly beloved and beauteous Queen Astrid ever appeared. After her tragic death in a motoring accident in Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935), the Duke of York returned to Brussels to represent his father, George V, at the funeral. Today, in so far as two crowned heads can be on natural and simple human terms, the British...
Dowagers and daughters found that the 17-year-old Crown Prince would answer any question addressed to him, and that was all. Not until he was several years older did he wake up and start courting in his own way Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid.* Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel...
...Prince, partly by serving as an active member of the Belgian Senate and partly by preparing for his father a series of comparative reports on colonial administration in the Belgian Congo, British India, The Netherlands Indies, the Philippines and French Indo-China. It was not simply that Leopold and Astrid "inspected" or showed "interest" on their travels. The Crown Prince everywhere took copious notes of the replies made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself for weeks, writing up his own reports to King Albert and preparing his speeches...
Married. Prince Charles Bernadotte, 26, nephew of King Gustaf V of Sweden, brother of the late Queen Astrid of the Belgians; in line of succession to the Swedish throne; to Countess Elsa von Rosen, 33, daughter of King Gustaf's Grand Master of Ceremonies, who two years ago divorced her cousin by whom she has three children; in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner, Prince Charles forfeited his rights to the throne, his Swedish title as Prince. He became a Belgian Prince by decree of his royal brother...