Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Motors...
...Royal cars have a duplicate speedometer, visible to the Royal eye. All are washed, polished, greased every night. Fortnightly a representative of Dunlap Rubber Co. (slogan: Dunlap Tires as British as the Flag!) journeys to wherever in Great Britain the Royal cars may be and thoroughly tests the rubber of each tire, scanning minutely for nails, flints, stone-bruises. Thus the undignified spectacle of Majesty waiting for a burst tire to be changed is seldom or never presented to English eyes...
Despite the popularity of Their Majesties?or perhaps because of it?misguided subjects contrive to scratch initials and other devices on the Royal bodies surprisingly often. Policy seems to dictate that the Crown shall not proceed against such petty offenders. Every blemish is patiently and skillfully obliterated (with sandpaper and quick drying varnish) during the night after it is discovered...
...head. Facing the block, she said: "I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper." She had stabbed Henry's pride. He was getting fat, middleaged. Laws were passed to make it praiseworthy to tattle on a naughty queen, to make it fatal for a royal-bride-to-be to hornswoggle the king as to her virtue...
...recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess." "Lilybet's" mother, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, is herself only two removes from becoming "Queen Elizabeth"-which title is constantly and teasingly applied to her by Edward of Wales. She would be less than human if she did not sometimes wonder how much truth there is in the story that he once...