Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Stand-ins Sirs...
...Majesty's New Year's Eve court ball seven months ago. In 1903 Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore him two children before divorcing him in 1909. Next year her marriage to Major Reginald Altham Owen of Britain's Royal Engineers automatically cost her her U. S. citizenship. When she tried to regain it in 1921, after she and her ailing husband had settled in Florida, she found that she would have to be naturalized like any other foreigner. Feminists used her plight as a prime argument in securing passage...
...Majesty King Edward VIII and the heir to the throne, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, flew in the same plane 300 miles last week, inspecting aircraft stations. An accident might thus have instantaneously made charming 10 year-old Princess ("Lilybet") Elizabeth, the Sovereign Queen and Empress...
...Circular carried a second and more potent utterance. The first had mentioned not only Mrs. Simpson but Mr. Simpson, too. The second last week omitted Mr. Simpson altogether, announced a dinner at York House in St. James's Palace at which ate His Majesty and Mrs. Simpson, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, the First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Maud Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill and Lord and Lady Willingdon, the former Viceroy and Vicereine of India...
...Britannia, the greatest sailing yacht of the British Royal Family, was decked with blossoms, towed out into the Channel at night to foil photographers and sunk last week by order of King Edward VIII...