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...Canada, King of New Zealand, King of Ireland, etc., his title is ingeniously compressed and arranged backward.* Last week His Majesty ordered that the actual situation created by enactment of the Statute of Westminster (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931 ) be squarely faced. Under this statute Edward VIII is a multiple monarch, separately King of each "country," separately acting upon the advice of its Premier. Therefore by royal command last week the age-old Coronation ceremonial will be overhauled and altered enough to make each Dominion feel that its King is being crowned as such in Westminster Abbey...
Last week he was back as Premier, telling King George as he told that monarch's father, King Constantine, that "Germany will...
...pistachio nuts. That this business might be picked up by Britain was curiously anticipated by the London Sphere, which three weeks ago, ran on its second page a studio portrait of the King of Kings and a caption lifted intact from the Iran Government handouts which describe that monarch as born "of a very noble Persian family ... of the purest element of the Iranian race...
...VIII. He is, the Scots stubbornly contended, King Edward II of the United Kingdom, since England's first six Edwards were Kings neither of Scotland nor of the United Kingdom. In many things His Majesty must defer to his Scottish subjects. Indeed the first act of any British Monarch after his accession is to take the oath by which he swears to defend the Church of Scotland. Last week's row about "Edward II," however, was simply ignored by Edward VIII. He officially designated his mother "Queen Mary" and she will therefore not be known as the Queen...
...telling effects are gained through a tongue-in-the-cheek subtlety. When the doddering idiot of a king is told to account for the presence of the soldier class by explaining that they are the conquering subjects, he innocently announces that they conquer the subjects. And when this same monarch is called upon to speak to his pugilistic parliament, his crafty prime minister starts a phonograph going beneath the royal robes. This is quite impressive until the minister in his vehemence breaks the record and the needle keeps repeating in the same rut. And when the august assembly convenes...