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...until after King George V came to the Throne had Westminster Abbey, sacred "Valhalla of the Empire," been used over a period of six centuries for such joyous occasions as a Royal Marriage. A bridesmaid at the wedding of Princess Mary, only daughter of King George & Queen Mary, was wholesome and attractive young Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, today Queen Elizabeth. When the present King George VI presently sought his sister's bridesmaid's hand, she made no secret of her Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could...
Engaged. Lieut. Pu Chieh, 31, younger brother of Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo; and Hiroko Saga, 23, daughter of a Japanese noble; in Tokyo. Since the Emperor has no son, on Manchukuo's fifth birthday last week Pu Chieh was proclaimed heir presumptive to "The Orchid Throne...
Sarah Althea Hill was born in frontier Cape Girardeau, Mo. in 1848, the year Louis Philippe lost his throne and General Zachary Taylor won the U. S. Presidency. Orphaned at 6, she was reared by a grandfather, migrated at 23 with her gold-seeking brother to California. Statuesque and golden-haired, sensationally beauteous, hot-tempered and flirtatious, she found lusty young San Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love...
...From thousands of loyal Italians thronging the streets of Naples went up a mighty roar. To the Princess of Piedmont, Crown Princess Marie-José, had just been born a nine-pound boy "with dark hair, dark eyes and a florid aspect," who may one day sit on the throne of Italy as King Vittorio Emanuele...
...with the Austrians as she was beloved in Hungary. At 36 Sisi was a grandmother. She celebrated by sneaking out to a masked ball, picking up a young man and beginning a clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism in which she prattled social equality, without realizing what a limb she was out on. She built a Greek palace in Corfu (cost to Franzi: 30,000,000 kronen), tried to sell it as soon as it was built. She traveled tirelessly. At 57 Sisi became a great...