Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...native Governor. Strangest suggestion was the converted Boer, onetime South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Most likely: either the Duke of York (it is known that King George is anxious for the duke to have administrative training as a possible heir to the throne) or Queen Mary's brother the Earl of Athlone, about to return to Britain after a successful term as Governor General of South Africa...
...Queen has learned through me that there was something foul about the official investigation of the fog deaths...
Thus spoke Professor Ernest Malvoz of the University of Liege last week and Queen Elisabeth made no denial. To all appearances Her Majesty was suspicious of the Belgian Cabinet's official declaration that the deaths of 67 persons in the Meuse valley last fortnight were due solely to "cold fog" (TIME...
Throughout the week Professor Malvoz and other scientists enjoying the confidence of Queen Elisabeth pursued their investigation. Throughout the world, industrialists owning factories from which smoke and gases belch watched anxiously to see whether Her Majesty's investigators would conclude that the "poison fog" which took so many Belgian lives was poisoned by the factories of the Meuse valley. Seldom before in recent history has a Queen so embarrassed the Cabinet of her husband's realm...
...pause a silver trumpet sounded. Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel Munthe) has been dead only since April...