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...English people, such royal reminders in the flesh of what King George and Queen Mary might have been last week focused fresh loyalty, love and devotion upon what they are. Last week, for every Socialist town council in Great Britain that refused to spend a ha'penny on the Jubilee, there was a score of Socialist town councils that were spending pounds. Best seats from which to watch the Jubilee procession sold for as much...
...cold fact is that Britain, since the legendary days of beamish King Arthur and His Tabb Round, has never had a sovereign so uniformly and usefully beloved as King George. His grandmother Queen Victoria, as most people have forgotten, emphatically was not popular throughout her reign. For years after she married German Prince Albert, his extreme unpopularity and her impetuous flouting of her Prime Ministers made the Crown a target for protests and lampoons. After Albert's death his widow's frantic seclusion, her transports of grief for years on end and her eventual recluse neglect...
...Like Queen Mary, King George has the distaste-rather than dislike-which so-many Englishmen honestly feel for so many U. S. citizens, and directly after the U. S. entered the War on England's side, George V still thought of "Americans" as persons too mercenary or "too proud" to fight. "I've a good story on you," said His Majesty at this time to U. S. Ambassador Walter Hines Page, and last week Englishmen still thought it good enough to be retold in the Jubilee Number of their Illustrated London News. "You Americans," continued the King...
...every Englishman knows, the King, though right royally fond of whiskey & soda, touched no alcohol in any form from 1915 until Armistice Day. Queen Mary, rationing everything in Buckingham Palace, herself made sure every night that the servants were not wasting electricity but had turned out every light. As one of the King Emperor's principal aides-de-camp afterward said privately: "The War aged him for he was subjected to a peculiar, unremitting strain. He knew that every day everyone he encountered expected to leave the presence of the King with a higher heart and more determined...
...heat and tension of the War Britons came to know King George and Queen Mary in their innermost qualities of heart. Never since then has the Crown been narrowly identified with any class- whereas Queen Victoria was conquering middle-class and King Edward was almost dilettante Mayfair...