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Proudly last week all Norway celebrated the kingdom's "Silver Jubilee," the 25th anniversary of the ascension of a 100% Norwegian throne by His Majesty Haakon VII. The last exclusively Norwegian King, Haakon VI, died 550 years...
Seemingly headstrong Princess Maud had thrown away the many chances she had had to marry onto a Throne-but the Norns of Norway were busy weaving her Fate, ably assisted by foxy Edward VII. (He liked his daughter Maud as much as he disliked his daughter-in-law Mary...
...which thousands of Hungarian Legitimists have been awaiting for eight years dawned quietly and set peaceably. Despite last-minute rumors of a projected dash through Switzerland and Austria to seize the throne of Hungary, of imminent riot and turmoil, somebody had evidently decreed that last week was not time for a putsch...
Birthdays. The Honorable Katherine Plunket, 110, daughter of the 2nd Baron Plunket, Lord Bishop of Tuam, in Ireland; Patrick Cardinal Hayes, 63, Archbishop of New York (world's largest diocese); Archduke Otto, 18, pretender to the Hungarian throne...
...opening of the Naval Conference the Throne was entirely removed after His Majesty's departure, thus provoking a storm of irate questions as to whether the Labor Government had intended to symbolize anything by this maneuver. They had not, but were taking no chances last week...