Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Scene: The drawing room of the late Queen Anne ("Brandy Nan") in St. James's Palace, into which the London Naval Conference moved last winter after being opened by His Majesty in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords and into which the Indian Round Table Conference moved last week, having also been opened by George V fortnight ago in the Royal Gallery (TIME...
...charge of conspiring to forge French coins of small denomination. His explanation: he was having some little medals made resembling French coins with which he was going to surprise his U. S. friends at Christmas. With him at the time of his arrest was his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll who subsequently fled to Paris...
...understood that Mecklenburg later expressed to Her Majesty the opinion that their daughter, who is now of age, is old enough to smoke, that the great Queen is pondering some relaxation of her Court smoking rule...
Devoted Belgians, grateful again to their able king, recalled with pride that their royal family is the only one in Europe whose members are careless of photographers. King Albert's straddle and the remarkable pictures of Queen Eliza beth being let down backward from inspecting an Egyptian stone inscription last winter are two examples. Recently their daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy, raised one royal leg high over the side of an Italian speedster, in order to climb out. heedless of the fact that lenses were looking...
...Author. Axel Munthe, 72, one-time cynically fashionable doctor, confidant (he sometimes extricated himself from pretty malades imaginaires just in time), raconteur of Paris and Rome, attending physician to the late Queen of Sweden, according to his own account took from the rich with his right hand, gave to the poor with his left, had enough left over to buy his villa in Capri, retire in comfort. There he lives alone, resents tourists, admires the view...