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Mishaps. Scarcely had Her Rumanian Majesty settled down to the journey than she remembered having left a vial of "seasickness pills" on her dressing table at Bucharest. Since her forthcoming voyage to the U. S. looms as the Queen's first long sea journey, she had attached great importance to this particular vial of pills, compounded especially by a Florentine pharmacist. Soon, however, Her Majesty was reassured. Hasty telegraphing effected the despatch of the pills by airplane to Paris...
This first contretemps safely weathered, there remained the problem of washing Tricky, the Queen's pet spaniel. Tricky had managed to soil her coat on a lump of railway grease. Hot water in quantities was requisite. Resourceful, a lady-in-waiting heated pot after pot of water in an electric percolator...
Victoria's Granddaughter. Parisians rubbed their eyes once more at Queen Marie, unquestionably the most modish of the late Queen Victoria's granddaughters. Queen Marie, the daughter of Victoria's second son, the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, never seemed more the perfect type of Germano-British womanhood than when she greeted with a radiant smile General Lasson, the military aide of President Doumergue who welcomed her to Paris and presented an armful of roses...
...royal party drove to the Ritz Hotel, Parisians wondered whether Queen Marie would give audience during her stay in Paris to her eldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, now resident at Paris with his favorite, Mme. Lupescu (TIME, Jan. 18). Her Majesty, astute, kept interest in a possible reconciliation between herself and Carol at fever heat during the week by refusing to affirm or deny that she would...
Almost the only one of Queen Marie's children not in the public eye with her last week was, therefore, her eldest daughter, the deposed Queen Elizabeth of Greece...