Word: queenly
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...seems doubtful if Rome had gazed upon such scenes since he that was to be Caesar Augustus returned there after the Battle of Actium. The city was gay with flags and bunting. The ceremonies began at 7 o'clock in the morning and the King and Queen spent a busy day, which began on the reviewing stand at 8 o'clock and ended late in the evening at the Quirinal Palace, the royal palace at Rome, formerly a summer residence of the Popes...
Past the King and Queen, who were accompanied by the Queen Mother Margherieta (proud of her son), Crown Prince Umberto, the Princesses Mafakla and Giovanna, the Duke and Duchess of Aosta (the King's cousins), Benito Mussolini and members of the Diplomatic Corps, marched a two-hour military and police parade. Later, a monster procession of more than 100,000 people, headed by a platoon of the Royal Guards on white chargers, marched past the Quirinal Palace, paying a tribute of cheers to its Sovereigns and receiving in return the King's salutes and the Queen...
They, the editors, seized upon this letter, discovered that the queenly fingers, adventuring in the orthography of a foreign tongue, had slipped once or twice in spelling. So, to drum up interest in the articles they were about to publish, to make a better profit from the poor Queen's efforts to earn a little money, they published her letter pointing out mistakes...
Died. Miss Elizabeth Lisle, 104, prominent in British society during the Victorian era; in London. Presented at court in 1845, she was fond in later years of telling how Queen Victoria slid down stairs on a tray on the eve of ascending the throne...
...queen who slid downstairs on a tray...