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...emblems of knighthood?stood under the portecochère. Postilions were mounted, and the twelve powdered footmen, dressed in the royal livery, were at their posts. A sudden bustle, the opening of doors, the trampling of many feet, and down the red-carpeted stairs came King George and Queen Mary. After they had entered the coach and the door had been ceremoniously closed, order was quietly passed along to the postilions and "the most superb carriage ever built" rolled on to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster...
Arriving at the House of Lords, the King and Queen alighted from the coach and entered the ancient edifice wherein the lords hold sway. Their Majesties retired to don the royal robes of state, after which they were conducted to the throne in dignified silence, surrounded on every side by berobed and beermined dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons and their bejeweled consorts.* Meantime, Black Rod? had been sent to fetch His Majesty's faithful Commons and in due time they appeared to hear the King say why for he had summoned his sixth Parliament...
...oppressive gloom of winter settled over Madrid. His royal spouse, the Habsburg Maria Christina, became Regent for her five-year-old daughter Maria-de-las Mercedes. In Spain, the season of the people's discontent was upon them. Progressive ideas were seething in reactionary cauldrons. Under a Queen such as little Maria, who was sure to be dominated all her life by her mother's ideas, Spain could only expect to see the new wine of her progressive aspirations poured down the neck of the grandee's old bottles?with the disastrous results depicted in the Bible...
...special attraction of the performance will be the Specialty Jazz Orchestra, which "won an almost international reputation by its European trip last summer. When in Spain, the orchestra was asked to play before King Alphonso and Queen Victoria at Santander, the summer palace of the Spanish court, where it was given a reception by the Queen. Besides playing at numerous benefit balls, the orchestra filled many private engagements, which included a concert at the American embassy in San Sebastian, Spain...
Upon the good ship Paris arrived in Manhattan Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, cousin of King George of Britain, younger sister of Queen Marie of Rumania, wife of Cyrille Vladimiro- vitch, self-ordained Tsar of all the Russias (TIME...