Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that during the 26 years of George V's reign not all the postal vans were equipped to correspond with his name, and last week many still marked E. R. for the Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint was preparing to strike his coins, commanded: "Make a big V. I should not like to be mistaken for another George"-the reprehensible characteristics of the first "Four Georges" having been popularly dwelt upon by William Makepeace Thackeray...
...weather was cold but sunny on the day Sandringham sent the last remains of beloved George V on a gun carriage to the railway station, with Queen Mary, the Princess Royal and the Duchesses of York. Gloucester and Kent following sorrowfully by carriage. King Edward and his three brothers walked bareheaded the whole two and a half miles, the collars of their closely-buttoned and furlined greatcoats upturned as they approached the station...
Norfolk villagers, with tears in their eyes, pressed as close as they respectfully could to the Royal Train. Jock, faithful pony of the late King-Emperor, was left with the country folk but Charlotte, the venerable parrot of George V, was put aboard the train which for the first half mile steamed along at a walking pace...
...hour set for arrival in London was 3 p. m. but somehow the train got there 15 minutes ahead of schedule. In the royal salon car as it drew into King's Cross Station a painful dilemma was in course. Gently the King urged Queen Mary and the Duchesses to alight at once and set out by limousine for Westminster Hall close by the Abbey, where George V was to lie in state. The Queen in her grief felt that she should not leave the railway station until the gun carriage bearing George V had rolled away. Assenting...
...Horrible Hohenzollern," buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania, put his Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King...