Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Special train after special train bearing Their Majesties, Their Excellencies, Their Royal Highnesses. Their Graces. Their Reverences, Lords and Ladies, Right Honorables and commoners of renown chuffed slowly toward Windsor on the last solemn journey of George V. who founded the House of Windsor. That deed stands imperishably in history with such monoliths as PLANTAGENET. The late King was born Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. Very unobtrusively in His Majesty's funeral escort this week moved His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha in Germany, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland...
...highest Anglican prelates in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Fittingly, since England was burying her "Sailor King," his son Edward VIII wore the uniform George V held so much more dear than the ermine, the purple and the cloth of gold: the blue of Admiral in the Royal Navy...
...called in the United Kingdom, would have seized for the British Exchequer 50% of the estate of George V-except that the King is above British law. No subject, not even the Prime Minister, has access to the will of His late Majesty. Sealed and placed in the Royal Family's vaults at Somerset House, the will can be invoked only at the pleasure of King Edward VIII and his successors. The value of postage stamps left by George V is estimated at $2,000,000. Not a penny of tax will the Exchequer receive...
...larger and more ominous question of where the Royal Family is to stand in the event that a really Socialist Cabinet is ushered in, His Majesty gave a clue during the British Coal Strike which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927. At that time the Soviet Government, through the Third International, were pouring some $2,000,000 into British strikers' funds and Labor leaders in London were publicly exclaiming: "Thank God for Moscow!" With tension extreme, Edward of Wales created a national sensation by dispatching his personal check for $50 to the Somerset Miners Distress Fund with this...
...Royal Highness necessarily cannot take sides in any dispute, but we all owe a debt to the miners in the past, and everyone must feel sympathy for the wives and children in these hours of distress. Besides it would not be a satisfactory end to any dispute that one side should be forced to give in on account of the suffering of their dependencies. His Royal Highness is confident that with good will on both sides there will be a happy issue out of the present difficulties...