Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall, notwithstanding his instrument of abdication executed on the 10th day of December, 1936, and His Majesty's Declaration of the Abdication Act of 1936, whereby effect was given to the said instrument, be entitled to hold and enjoy for himself only the title, style or attribute of Royal Highness, so however that his wife and descendants, if any, shall not hold said title, style or attribute...
Just six days before Mrs. Wallis Warfield was to become the merry wife of Windsor, this notice appeared in the official Court Circular. This meant that not only would the future Duchess of Windsor be definitely barred from the title of Royal Highness, a rank that even anti-Edwardian palace officials were walling to concede her three weeks ago, but that now she would be least in rank of all Britain's duchesses, as the most recently created...
This was the last in a series of parting blows delivered by the outgoing Baldwin Government. Four days earlier King George had personally telephoned his brother at the Chateau de Cande and explained apologetically that he had. been . forced not only to forbid any member of the Royal Family attending the wedding, but any British subject holding a Crown commission, which meant that such a harmless citizen as the former pilot of Edward's private plane. Wing Commander Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, was forced to refuse an invitation together with more potent officers and diplomats who were among the Duke...
...Sandwich- To get to Royal St. George's Club in time for his first-round match, Brigadier General Alfred Cecil Critchley, London sports promoter, sailed from New York on the Normandie, took a speedboat to the dock at Southampton, chartered a plane, flew to the course, waved at the starter to identify himself, landed at a nearby airport, rushed up to the first tee. He arrived three minutes after the match had been awarded to his opponent by default...
Normally the opening of London's Royal Academy show in venerable Burlington House is the opening gun of London's social season, one of the great events of the year. But not in Coronation Year. The 169th Royal Academy exhibition has been officially open for a month, yet not until last week did attendance figures begin to approach normal. Having shaken the Coronation confetti out of their hair, the public trooped in to see what, after sitting for .weeks in solemn judgment, the Academy's hanging committee had chosen...