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...against the Prime Minister. Better explanation: the King, symbol of the nation, was simply making friends with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could be gracefully done under the sponsorship of an elder statesman no longer in active politics. No newspaper printed the diners' names, Buckingham Palace having passed the word down that they should be omitted from news stories to prevent "unfortunate speculation...
...brief stay in the British Capital before his ex-brother-in-law, Carol II of Rumania, arrived. Carol went on to Germany, but he had not been home a week before he began shooting Rumanian Nazis. And the elaborate gold dinner service trotted out for King Carol at Buckingham Palace had just been put away when another royal guest suddenly turned up last week. He was His Royal Highness Prince Paul, 45-year-old chief Regent of Yugoslavia...
...home in London as much as in Belgrade, Prince Paul and his beautiful Grecian-born wife, Princess Olga, occupied the "Belgian suite" of Buckingham Palace. Greeted by his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, His Royal Highness cocktailed with old Oxford chums, dined with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, teaed with the Prime Minister. Also, in long talks Paul discussed with George VI the future of 15-year-old King Peter II, whose Regent he will remain until Peter begins to rule Yugoslavia in his own right...
Silently in Buckingham Palace the King-Emperor drew a sheet of parchment toward him, dipped pen and signed "George R. I." beneath a proclamation canceling last week the September "Crisis" Proclamation under which the Royal Navy was put under partial, later full mobilization. The new proclamation proclaimed: "His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth hereby declare that a case of emergency no longer exists...
...Government,* highly approving of Director Herbert Wilcox's treatment of the same subject in Victoria the Great last year, lent him settings which not even Hollywood could hope to reproduce. No empty shells tacked up on a sound stage, the castles of Windsor and Balmoral, the palaces of Buckingham and St. James's (to whose interiors the King gave Director Wilcox and his company access) look as substantial as their own walls and superb Technicolor film can make them...