Word: enchantress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the royal yacht came the Admiralty yacht Enchantress bristling with Sea Lords, a number of chartered ocean liners, bearing 3,000 favored British taxpayers, and at the rear', 3½-miles behind the royal yacht, the splashing paddle-wheel steamer Whippingham, bearing 300 disgusted newskawks who scarcely saw the royal yacht...
...Queen Mother, new King George VI, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, drove last week at great speed through night and fog to Portsmouth, intending to embark on the Admiralty Yacht. At the last moment this plan was changed; the name of the yacht is the Enchantress. It was dignified to sail instead on the British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private car and a new life of wealth, ease and perhaps happiness. Rolling down to Austria...
...first time since his accession, Edward VIII left Britain this week to inaugurate the $1,000,000 War memorial to 60,000 Canadian War dead at Vimy Ridge. The King crossed the Channel on the Admiralty yacht Enchantress escorted by a Canadian and a French destroyer. With utmost solemnity 20,000 persons witnessed the ceremony, heard an exchange of friendly and feeling speeches by King Edward and President Lebrun of France...