Word: koh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koh-i-Nur. Crown jewels seldom travel, but King George and Queen Elizabeth, responding to the costly hospitality of their French hosts, brought along $7,500,000 in jewels from the Tower of London, including the 106-carat Koh-i-Nur diamond for Her Majesty to wear at the Paris Opera. Two Scotland Yardmen were deemed enough to guard the Crown jewels, plus 50 blue trunks and pieces of luggage, each lettered in gold, THE KING. Their Majesties left the channel port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by special train for Paris over a cleared track guarded by 50,000 French...
...hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch's mother...