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...corn cures a blurb reading "THE YANKEE AT KING EDWARD'S COURT" This sold at 15? each some 100,000 copies of the new New York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will be a victory for the Throne, the King, quite evidently, is the most helpless of creatures, a man over 40 who has fallen desperately in love." The New York World-Telegram, leading organ of the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain, followed this with front-page pictures six inches high of Queen Mary and Mrs. Simpson side...
...film well worth seeing "Nine Days A Queen" does not equal "Henry VIII" but it is in the same tradition. The story centers about the struggle for power among the nobility after the demise of Henry VIII, with the highest lords of the realm backing successors to the throne...
...usual, however, vast Netherlands Indies, not the small Netherlands, was the nub of the Speech from the Throne. Without directly mentioning the Dutch Cabinet's fear that outbreak of a major war anywhere would be the signal for the Japanese Fleet to pounce upon Borneo and seize from the Netherlands Indies the most important oil fields in the whole Far East, the Speech of matronly Wilhelmina touched tidily upon the new defenses for the Netherlands Indies now being invested in by Her Majesty's Government. By 1040 the Netherlands Indies air force is to be completely reorganized with...
...They knelt to Her Majesty and kissed her hand while the Italian band played the Spanish royal anthem. Thus in pathetic dignity Victoria Eugenie steamed past and saw at close range the Spain in which her life was dogged by so many betrayals and disasters that even on the throne she was called the "Queen of Sorrows...
...each time a new waif was brought to the poverty-ridden hut to die. He did not solve the mystery of his birth until he had been whisked away to a castle, educated. Then he discovered that he was the son of Rudolf, the brilliant, impetuous heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and thus grandson of the old Emperor Franz Josef he had hated as a tyrant in his peasant days. But Rudo as an illegitimate prince befriending the commoners, studying art, hating the nobility, philosophizing over nature, marrying a peasant girl, founding an orphanage, is a dull figure...