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...Buckingham to Westminster?from the residence of the sovereign to the assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke of Clarence), elevated his younger brother George from...
Mise en Scene. When they emerged, the King had exchanged his military garb for robes of state, "the ermine, the purple, and the crown." The Queen of course wore her imposing State Crown, topped by a blazing Maltese Cross of diamonds. A diamond stomacher twinkled on the jet black gown which she had donned in mourning for Queen Alexandra. Close beside the throne stood the Marquis of Salisbury, holding the great Sword of State. Since the Prince of Wales was unable to appear on account of his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8), his brother, the Duke of York, took...
...British Royal House changed from Hanover to Saxe-Coburg und Gotha by the marriage of Queen Victoria to a prince of the latter house. On Jan. 17, 1917, "the House of Windsor" was arbitrarily created...
...fundamental democracy of Scandinavians is traditional, ingrained. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway habitually walk about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted...
Working swiftly and in the dead of night, friends of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania (TIME, Jan. 11, 18) pasted up enormous scarlet caricatures upon the buildings of Bucharest, the capital. Had Queen Marie (Carol's mother) ridden abroad in the early dawn, she would have beheld a coarse likeness of her alleged "court favorite," Prince Babu Stirbey, leering at her everywhere above the caption, "This...