Word: queenly
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...Majesty, standing there as the train puffed in, reflect perhaps how great has been the role of Chance in his life and in that of the French President? The gilded Royal Coach, and all the trappings of this King, even to the great lady who is his Queen, were destined originally for a man now dead, his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence...
...royal box, no King, no Queen. Instead, Princess Mary smiled earnestly and collectively at the gathering...
That the Chinese band carrying strings of firecrackers on bamboo poles, which met them at Shanghai, and the flower girls who escorted the Queen of Spain to her lesson in U. S. student jazz, were characteristic minutiae of the color and folkways observed by students of history, sociology and kindred subjects, at first hand instead of in books...
George Henry Lewes, the lifelong lover and helper of the woman of genius, also has Miss Haldane's sympathy--"he did for George Eliot what the Prince Consort did for Queen Victoria." The reader is not surprised to learn that in spite of her unconventional marriage the novelist enjoyed the friendship and esteem of most of the other great ones of her time, and that when Lewes was ill a messenger enquired after his health from the court of Queen Victoria...
...tale of Tom Thumb is even better. In his account of the midget's triumph in Europe, P. T. Barnura tries hard to be nonchalant in his talk of Queen Victoria, Baroness Rothschild, and continental royalty, but he simply can't--and who could--and his amiable strutting only makes the story the pleasanter...