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...Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David is now. by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful, rightful Liege-Lord. Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas. King, Defender of the Faith. Emperor of India...
There were no jubilees for Edward VII who became King-Emperor when he was 59 and died at 68 on May 6, 1910 "of a bad cold" (bronchitis) only five days after catching it. His eldest son, the Duke of Clarence, died of a bad cold within a week of catching it. Therefore Edward VII's second son came to the Throne as George V, aged 44. Last week His Majesty, having celebrated his Silver Jubilee last year, was taken with a bad cold (bronchial catarrh). Five days later he was dead...
...George V not only the Empire but also the whole world saw the sole Emperor of white race not to lose his throne after the War. There was at that time a memorable and tragic hour when even the refugee Romanovs, his cousins, had to be denied visas on which they were to have gone to England on the invitation of George V's impulsive mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. With thrones creaking from Berlin to Constantinople, the best and wisest British Cabinet members urgently advised the House of Windsor not to attract attention to this question by becoming...
...must attest each royal birth and death. Ready on parchment were words hailing "the high and mighty Prince" on his becoming "our only lawful and rightful Liege . . . by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India...
Died. George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, 70; of bronchial catarrh; at Sandringham...