Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens to be French Finance Minister is in the vast Palace of the Louvre at the end of interminable marble stairs. With its walls of red & gold, its enormous twinkling crystal chandeliers and its delicate and beautiful antique furniture, it resembles nothing so much as the boudoir of a Royal courtesan. In this setting last week heavy Radical Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, whose right eye droops half shut behind his tortoise-shell glasses, received correspondents in the dead of night. He had left President Lebrun and Premier Blum soon after midnight and at that hour said "Goodnight" over...
...Scottish clansmen accustomed to gather each year and greet the Monarch with a loyal demonstration after his arrival at Balmoral (TIME, Sept. 28) were informed last week that King Edward had discontinued this practice and also would not drive out behind the Royal greys. The 40 stable grooms and coachmen who accompanied the Monarch in previous years to Balmoral were left in London last week and the custom of inviting a Cabinet minister to reside in attendance upon the King in Scotland was also discontinued. Constitutionally the King can act only upon the advice and with the countersignature...
...King when Prince of Wales laid the cornerstone of the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. Last week His Majesty caused the Court Circular to appear one morning in such a manner that the first paragraph announced that Mrs. Simpson had arrived at Balmoral Castle while the second para graph said that the Duke & Duchess of York had opened the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. While Their Royal Highnesses were doing so. His Majesty, wearing a kilt and with a Scottish tarn o' shanter set jauntily over one ear, arrived at the Aberdeen railway station and greeted Mrs. Simpson as she alighted...
...addition to the Royal Dukes and Duchesses, the Duke & Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry and the Earl and Countess of Rosebery were invited to be with the King and Mrs. Simpson at Balmoral Castle. Its nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman...
Afterward Castle guests were shown movies taken on the recent royal yachting cruise. In these the King and Mrs. Simpson, always side by side, figured with such local rulers as the Turkish Dictator and Mrs. Simpson was seen riding through the streets of .Athens seated at the King's right hand in his official car amid the plaudits of the Greeks. All this was news to most of the assembled Dukes and Duchesses in Balmoral last week, for such scenes have been rigidly kept from the British newspaper-reading and newsreel-viewing public by a form of British self...