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Upon his arrival in London from his five-year tenure of the Viceroyalty of India Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Lord Irwin got the Garter...
...affected blockhead, the husband of one of the smartest "political wives" in Europe. Austen copied his father in all ways as best he could (omitting only the 19th Century orchid); he made a name once as great as that of his friend Briand; and he retired with the Garter...
...other things on that scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished, but no story of meanness or betrayal has ever faced the light. No story has ever faced the light. There is no story that cannot face the light. The paper of his study at Easton Glebe bore the garter and Honi soit qui mal y pense. That states his case...
...this was not a Chapter (formal meeting) of the Order of the Garter, George V and Edward of Wales wore ordinary morning dress instead of gorgeous Garter robes, but the clergy of the Order came robed and resplendent, each churchman displaying the famed motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
Short and simple, the reopening service was without sermon, consisted chiefly of a prayer by patriarchal Dean Albert Victor Baillie of Windsor for the "Sovereign and His Companions of the Garter...