Word: queenly
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...King and Queen gave a garden party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, London. These parties are celebrated for their democratic atmosphere. It was noticed that General and Mrs. Bramwell Booth, of the Salvation Army, were present; also bishops; also Cabinet ministers, Indian princes, dukes, journalists, lesser peers, professors...
...last generation still remembers the Duke's cowardly insult to Queen Victoria, who had previously allowed him to enter the British Army and had shown him many courtesies...
...this occasion he was boor enough to permit publicity to be given to a letter of his in which he had approved caricatures grossly insulting to the Queen...
Crown Prince Carol served the first tennis ball and Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia, daughter of the Rumanian King, pitched the first ball in a baseball game between the American colony and the Rumanian Government staff...
...Queen Margherita, who is 72 years old, and widowed since 1900, is endeared to the people of Italy by the charming tradition of the grande dame which she has ably maintained. Small, delicate, fragile, she is every inch a queen, gracious and feminine to the finger tips which she has so often waved and kissed to affectionate crowds...