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Royal palaces & gardens (1916)

Nixon, Mima, illustrator, Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. · leaf 183

An illustration from Royal palaces & gardens, 1916, leaf 183
ownto all visitors to Corfu. At midday the bright,hot spring sunshine pours down on to massesof cinerarias and lilies grouped round the statuesand the palms. Our own royal family has been to Corfu morethan once. When King Edward and QueenAlexandra visited Athens together, they cameon here, and… … The Cinerarias, The Achilleion, Corfu CINERARIAS, THE ACHILLEION It was on the occasion oi this visit, whichexcited the wildest enthusiasm in all Greece,that the story went the round of the Greek papersthat a little schoolboy wept bitterly over hisblotted copybook, because his master furiouslyasked…

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