Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker who could not be arrested preached flat disloyalty to George V and mere lip loyalty to the British Crown before a huge audience at Harrismith in the Union of South Africa, a British Dominion. "We don't accept the King of England," he roared, "but only his Crown...
...last Dominion Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 to Dec. 6, 1926) it was his bite which finally nipped the British Commonwealth into formal recognition that: 1) The Dominions are nations, with rights to accredit diplomats to non-British countries; 2) Great Britain is on a plane of "equality under the Crown" with the Dominions; 3) Great Britain, while continuing to administer the colonies and the foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions, and not with her onetime parental status as "The Mother Country." Clearly these formulae are intentionally so loose and general...
Each of these youths is heir to a Throne. Each has been mooned at and photographed ad nauseam. Therefore smart folk hailed with relief, last week, the definitive emergence of a fifth and little known prince: Charles of Flanders. Though he is not a Crown Prince, but the second son of King Albert of the Belgians, he officiated with the grace and freshness of youth, last week, at ceremonies which marked a pilgrimage to Belgium of 15,000 British Legionairies...
...heroic city of Mons is known to smart Belgians as the seat of a somewhat narrow-minded and Mrs. Grundyish local aristocracy. Therefore when Swedish-born Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium visited Mons some weeks ago, she was believed to have committed a thoroughgoing faux pas by producing her small gold cigaret case, at the close of a Civic High Tea, and snapping her cosmopolitan lighter...
...very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred the English barons to demand the Magna Carta of John; later (after John's death) he supported the crown against the nobles. Thomas Cranmer (1533-56), himself twice married (first to "Black Joan," relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn at Cambridge where...