Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corporal Puddifoot of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade displayed a gleaming pair of gold cuff links last week, a present from Queen Mary. For Corporal Puddifoot was one of the four stretcher-bearers who bore the King-Emperor from Buckingham Palace to the motor ambulance which carried him to Bognor. Last week the King's Equerry, Col. Arthur Erskine, in behalf of the Queen, handed each of the four a pair of massive gold links, each large enough to bear the inscription: "A Memento of Her Majesty's Appreciation of Your Services...
Denmark's elongated King, Christian X, dislikes hitches. Things can never run too smoothly to suit the precise mind of the six-foot-five-inch ruler, and yet recently a number of annoying little accidents have happened to His Majesty. A fat Frenchman fell over his feet in the theatre at Cannes (TIME, Feb. 25). He paid a State Visit to Madrid, only to have the Queen-Mother of Spain die suddenly (TIME, Feb. 18). So it has gone. Last week King Christian returned to Denmark from the Riviera, determined that if possible, this voyage should be uneventful...
...they would be in Copenhagen. Practically nothing more could happen, unless the royal car should slip off the ferry into the sea. This very nearly had occurred on a previous occasion and worried trainmen roped and chained the train securely to the track. The ferry left the pier, King Christian sighed with relief, inserted himself in the royal berth, went to sleep...
Three hours passed, when the King awoke and realized that he was not in motion...
...true. So heavy were the ice jams in the Baltic that train and ferry were caught fast in the midst of the frozen sea. King Christian and his consort and their son were forced to spend the night marooned on a motionless ferryboat until released by Government icebreakers in the morning...