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Aboard the Berengaria Queen Marie at first kept to her suite of staterooms, alleging mal de mer, though the crossing was anything but rough. Later she dined at the captain's table. Princess Ileana, clad in a grey one-piece bathing suit, swam several times in the ship's pool, accompanied by Prince Nicholas...
Meanwhile U. S. citizens mulled over the farewell address and parting shot of Queen Marie...
...simple people in the street that I love and that love me! They love me for myself, not because I am a Queen. In your cities, everywhere that I went, to Seattle and Chicago and all of the little places that I can't even remember, they broke through the police lines to clasp my hand and tell me of their affection. It is them that I love and to them that I shall someday return. ... I cannot look into the future, and enough unto the day is the joy or the sorrow thereof...
...Denmark was altered, and Christian became Crown Prince amid general astonishment (1852). Fortune's darling if ever mortal was, he not only became King Christian IX of Denmark but lived to see three of his children monarchs: King George I of Greece (reigned 1883-1913, assassinated 1913) ; Queen Empress Alexandra of Britain (reigned 1901-1910, died 1925); and the Empress Marie of Russia (reigned 1881-1894, aged at present...
...demonstrations, held first or the roof of the Postoffice, later on Salisbury Plain and across Bristol Channel, were so successful that the Italian Government invited me home in 1897, to demonstrate at Spezia, and in Rome before King Humbert and Queen Margherita, Again success was mine. The distance over which I could send anc receive messages was constantly increasing-first a room's length then a building's, a mile, four miles ten miles, twenty miles...