Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Numerous British newsorgans carried rumors that Edward VIII will go to each Dominion and be crowned its King, then to India for a grand Durbar coronation as Emperor. To light this week came the fact that under the Statute of Westminster the various Dominions have proclaimed Edward their King in different formulas, partly of their own devising. At Ottawa, for example, His Majesty was proclaimed "Supreme Lord in and over the Dominion of Canada," a title which rings exceedingly strange in English ears...
...father taught me to revere the Emperor," replied the accused. "I intended by assassinating General Nagata to support the Throne...
...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...
Norfolk villagers, with tears in their eyes, pressed as close as they respectfully could to the Royal Train. Jock, faithful pony of the late King-Emperor, was left with the country folk but Charlotte, the venerable parrot of George V, was put aboard the train which for the first half mile steamed along at a walking pace...
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...