Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without ceremony, three automobiles drew up before Sir Arthur (Dunlop tires) Du Cros's comfortable stucco Craigwell House. Standing by the door were butlers, footmen, cooks, grooms, gardeners, royal marines-all who had served and guarded the King during his illness. Through the door came Their Majesties, snugly buttoned up, and as they passed down the line each servant received either a gold stickpin or a pair of gold cufflinks, blue enameled with the royal monogram. Into the car behind the King's stepped Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's physician, and four trained nurses entered another...
Great was the celebration in Windsor when the royal motorcade drove through High Street. Pinafored schoolchildren waved flags and screamed excitedly. The merry housewives of Windsor showered rose petals on King George's sober limousine. At the foot of Queen Victoria's statue stood the black-robed mayor and red-robed Town Councilors...
...King-Emperor stuck his head through the limousine door...
Inside the castle gate stood 1,000 of the King's young neighbors in battered silk hats and very clean collars, the boys of Eton College...
London society was feverishly trying to guess last week who the author of King George's latest biography might be. The book, "By a Person in Close Touch with the Royal Family," was begun at the height of the King's illness in the ghoulish expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King...