Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King," said the bulletin, "is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods of time. Complete recovery is still some months distant...
Thus for the first time official cognizance was taken of the King's mental state, a subject that has been worrying official circles for the past month. The King's physical improvement is all that could be expected. He eats and sleeps well. He walks, leaning heavily on two nurses, from one room to another, and sits by an open window for hours, watching the horses exercise on Bognor sands. But he does not seem able to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. It was said that this is the reason the Prince of Wales has paid...
...best time in the King's day," said an unofficial despatch from London, "is usually just after six in the evening. In the best periods the King realizes his weakness and insists on being treated as an extreme invalid. In his other moods, however, he does not recognize the situation and expects to be treated as a well person, which increases the difficulties of the doctors and nurses...
...fact that it is absolutely impossible to tell whether the King's mind will completely recover or not makes the general anxiety the more acute. All his most personal belongings have been taken to Craigwell House to help him recover: his famed stamp albums, his collection of gramophone records, most of them jazz tunes, his terrier, and Charlotte, the parrot...
...this announcement the Lord Chamberlain did his best to spike the ever recurring rumor that the king will never resume his duties as ruler again, and that the Prince of Wrales is shortly to be proclaimed Regent_ In this case, of course, the Prince would preside at court, taking his place on the dais with the Queen. Despite the Lord Chamberlain, U. S. newsorgans reprinted the Regency story, insisted on it, and promised that the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would proclaim the Regency of the Prince of Wales within a month...