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...power behind the throne? No, woman is not that. No great man has ever been inspired to greatness by a woman's unseen power...
...forthcoming imperial infant was felt by the heir apparent, Prince Chichibu, eldest brother of the Emperor Hirohito. Should the Empress give birth to a girl, as she did at her first accouchement (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), Prince Chichibu must remain in Japan, ready to assume the Throne immediately, should Death come to the Emperor...
...Pretenders to the Imperial Throne of Russia...
...worried household, where Aelfrida yearns for glamorous court life and Aethelwold's treachery burns constantly in his heart. Mr. Taylor's cellos breathe chromatic sights. The henchman is driven to reveal to his wife his perfidy: how he deprived the King of her beauty, her of a queen's throne. If she loves him, let her hurry to make herself appear ugly, bent, broken, scarred, withered, that the King may find his brother innocent of treason...
Peers sat robed in scarlet, gold and ermine. Justices were capped by wigs as large as beehives. Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras. Even Edward of Wales stood decorous in his place at the right of the throne. A moment earlier he had tripped over his own sword and almost sprawled. The picture seemed sufficiently magnificent, yet His Majesty sat waiting. The delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members...