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...King Boris is a third cousin of King George, both being descendants of the House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. Technically the British Royal House is named Windsor, but genealogically it is the same as that of Bulgaria i. e.. Saxe-Coburg und Gotha...
...jumped up from London, Ontario, and pointed east. This time they fought fog. Far south of their course and unable to proceed they surrendered to the fog. In a farmer's field at Washburn, Me., the Sir John Carlmo came down undamaged. ¶ The same day the Royal Windsor jumped up from Windsor, Ontario, and headed east. Late that night a telephone tinkled tidings to tho world from St. Johns, Quebec. The Royal Windsor had landed with one wing afire. The blaze was extinguished. Regretfully Flyers Clarence Schiller and Phil Wood took from the ship a wreath marked "Nungesser...
...this cheerful readiness to provide a feast for every eye that so endears the British Royal Family to Englishmen and partly accounts for the World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander...
...Spanish-American War. Dr. Wood's talk last week was in advocacy of a $2,000,000 fund now being quietly collected in the U. S. to alleviate, study and prevent leprosy. Chief experiments will be conducted on the Philippines pest island of Culion, where Dr. H. Windsor Wade has charge of 5,200 lepers. At one time Culion was called the Island of Despair. Now it is the Island of Hope, for Dr. Wood has been able, by a rigid regime of treatment, to discharge approximately 1,000 onetime lepers as cured or at least noninfectious...
...princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their country utterly ravished by German armies under the great Feld-marshall August von Mackensen; but they never wavered from adherence to the Allies and, as a result, Rumania was expanded by the peacemakers into the largest Balkan country. Thus King Ferdinand...