Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home Secretary was said at Buckingham Palace to have offended Queen Mary by what she considered the "levity" of his public allusions to George V's condition. Since Sir William has the official duty of presiding at and certifying royal births and deaths, the British public look to him as the highest political authority on His Majesty's illness...
This was flayed at Buckingham Palace, last week, as an "almost flippant" and "entirely unauthorized" exaggeration of the gravity of George V's condition on that date...
...never sets on the British empire, then there is seldom a time when it is not shining down on a cricket game. Last week, when London was in darkness and the old, sick king stirred in the night at Buckingham Palace, the most important cricket of the year was being played in Melbourne, Australia. This was the third match in the series played yearly between a team of picked Britishers and a team of picked Australians for the "ashes...
President Coolidge sent a cable: "His Majesty, George V, Buckingham Palace, London-I am greatly pleased to learn of the distinct improvement of Your Majesty's health and trust that your complete convalescence will now be but a matter of a short time.-Calvin Coolidge...
...consultants. Sir Stanley Hewett was said to have called in Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, and Lord Dawson was believed to have summoned Sir Humphry Rolleston. Presently these names were added to the signatures appearing beneath each bulletin displayed in every post office throughout Great Britain. To post up the Buckingham Palace bulletin not typewriter script, but inch-high black lettering was used...