Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands of the elected Parliament and responsible Ministers...
Prince Gustaf served as a young man in the Swedish Army, began to step out, travel and see the world when as Crown Prince in 1878 he paid his first visit to England. There, so far as Sweden was concerned, he "discovered tennis," proceeded to popularize the game in Scandinavia. No mere athlete, however, the Crown Prince buckled down during these years to problems of State. Of these the most pressing was the growing discontent of Norway under the Swedish Crown and there were plenty of Swedes with an Abraham Lincoln mentality who preferred civil war to permitting secession...
...years later Gustaf V came to the Throne, but refused to be crowned and Sweden was spared the expense of a Coronation. On State occasions the crown rests on a settee beside the Throne. Most historians agree that the 32 years of His Majesty's reign constitute the period of "Modern Sweden." In 1909 a severe financial crisis was followed by a general strike in Sweden, but this stopped just short of revolution and since then the people have increasingly been Kingsmen...
Since King Gustaf has reached such a great age, many of the burdens of the Crown are now borne by big-boned, vigorous Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who has been acting as Regent every winter while His Majesty vacations on the Riviera, sipping champagne with attractive French mondaines and finding that at tennis almost everyone who plays with him, from Mile Suzanne Lenglen to the current Swedish champion, Tarsten Fronfors, has an understandable tendency to lose games and sets to this grand old royal democrat they like so much...
...though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest jewel in her crown...