... with the Prince of Wales among the guests and Madame herself snatching a bouquet from the ladies' cloakroom to greet ex-Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain the success of Prunier's has been assured. Mme Prunier believes that the best cooks always make use of ...

... village. He fixed up with a Jack i' th' Green, and maidens to group in the May Queen's wagon, but what he had failed to realize was that on a May Day one chooses only one May Queen, which in any strong-minded parish may be liable to misinterpretation. The ...

... my opinion it is) as small as I can. Nevertheless, Queen Victoria set an example to the women of the world by permitting the use of anaesthetics during the birth of her children. Even as the Queen wrote, however, there were women whose eyes travelled ...

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... original fit tings have been restored. Many, through the discern ment of the late Queen Mary, were returned from Buckingham Palace, where they had been stored since Queen Victoria had the Pavilion dismantled, so that its rather too-shocking memories Continued ...

... but in the spring the mimosas from which the little town takes its name add fragrance to its many charms. Even before Queen Victoria stayed here, Bormes-les-Mimosas was especially beloved by us as a winter resort. A winding road leads to the sea through ...

... Caro Lamb, will welcome Lord M. (Constable, 21s.), the account of his later life as statesman and adviser to the young Victoria. He came to love her, yet had to step aside when she married Albert and accepted uncomplainingly a minor rdle. There was ...

... there. IT was said without humour. I suppose that to a young man who had got his ideas of Monarchy from the last days of Queen Victoria, and the Diamond Jubilee, when England ruled the waves and the world, too, the kings of the Balkans would naturally seem ...

... pace of modern living lends itself to the kind of spacious journal that women of more leisured ages found time to write. Queen Victoria, Fanny Burney, Caroline Fox, the Ladies of Llangollen, Dorothy Wordsworth, J ane Welsh Carlyle and a score of others kept ...

... ever the Yuletide season more overflowing with Christian kindliness and pagan cheer than in the days when the young Victoria was Queen and Dickens in his prime? Was ever the Christmas spirit expressed more heartily in family festivity, robust wassailing ...

... Mary to be Queen Elizabeth the Second. And it will reach its climax on June 2 next, when the Archbishop of Canterbury places St. Edward's Crown upon Queen Elizabeth's head and the Abbey resounds with the congregation's shout: God Save the Queen THIS Crown ...

... it is the crowning of England's Queens that strikes a special chord. Up to now five Queens have reigned in England Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, Mary and Anne Stuart and Victoria. And since the Coronation of that first Queen Regnant, Mary Tudor, just four ...