Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Buxom Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria last week personally read her Speech-from-the-Throne at the opening of the Netherlands Parliament. Not only Queen Wilhelmina, but indomitable Queen Mother Emma, portly Prince Henry (Wilhelmina's spouse) and plump Princess Juliana, heiress to the throne, were there, almost 700 Ib. of Royal Dutch...
What every correspondent and most loyal Netherlanders hoped to hear from the lips of Majesty was a name. All last summer Queen & Daughter yachted and toured in Scandinavia. Dutch rotogravures have pictured the curvesome Crown Princess beside one tall and royal Scandinavian sapling after another. Which is to be her Prince Consort, future Man-in-the-House to the Netherlands' excessively female Royal line...
...Geer sheepishly reported that for the first time in seven years the Dutch budget is out of balance, shows a small deficit of $3,615,300. This in part the Government proposes to make up by "increasing the liquor excise" and "economizing." Two days after good Queen Wilhelmina failed to name a fiance, the Swedish press heard that the name is "Sigvard"-i. e. Prince Sigvard Oscar Frederick, Duke of Uppland, second son of Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf by his first wife, the late Princess Margaret Victoria, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. This potent rumor neither the Swedish...
...Belgian crown, son of Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid of Sweden, was almost immediately invested with six names, honoring both his parents' royal families. But Belgian editors scanning the catalog of names were scandalized to note that the founder of the Belgian royal house, King Leopold I (Queen Victoria's "wise Uncle Leopold") had been omitted. Next day little Prince Baudouin was officially amended to read: "Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave," gained a pound...
...Yacht Squadron in a free-for-all race off Cowes. America, a rakish Yankee upstart which had crossed the Atlantic with the idea of bullying Englishmen into match races and making its owners some money, was grudgingly permitted to compete. When America came leaning down toward the finish line Queen Victoria asked her signalman who was second. "Your Majesty," he said, "there aren't no second...