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...King and Queen went to Denmark for a visit to their relatives of the Danish Royal Family. The Crown Prince was in England. It came to pass, therefore, that the next in line to exercise the kingly functions was Gustav Adolf, 18-year-old son of the Crown Prince, hereditary Prince of Sweden...
...years ago King Alexander I, son of King Peter and great-grandson of Kara George (Black George) Petrovitch, founder of the dynasty, married Princess Marie of Rumania, a daughter of Queen Marie...
...climbing a mountain to inspect gold and silver mines of which he was part owner. His daughter by his first marriage was known as 'the frappeed baby" from cold storage methods used to cure a childish illness. His mother, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, was a favorite of Queen Victoria...
...Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note of introduction from Sodom and Gomorrah. The police discovered her-and the hole in her back showing her wooden spine...
...tendency in modern biography to be fair instead of flattering, to tell the plain facts instead of forcing the great man to conform to the thesis of the book, began with Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" The new method was so interesting and compelling that later biographies had perforce to copy the manner or fail to arrest attention. But where a man has been made into a myth, as Stevenson certainly has, the task of the biographer becomes doubly hard, for he must go against accepted opinion, and people will only half believe what he says...