Word: royale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Oliva Dionne, father of Annette, Cécile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and several other less famous children, inviting him to bring the quintuplets to Toronto on May 22 to see the King and Queen. The letter offered the use of two private railroad cars, seats at a royal luncheon and official reception, use of Premier Hepburn's private office "when the girls are not in the private car on the tracks"; and ended with a reminder that "this will probably be the only opportunity your daughters would ever have to see Their Majesties...
...time being any notion that King Leopold was to become a royal dictator was checked. That question may again arise if the new elections result in the same old deadlocked divisions of Liberal v. Conservative, Walloon v. Fleming, that past elections have produced...
Although the Associated Royal Warrant Holders can crack down by law on British usurpers, the U. S. is a permanent headache. At present the association is piqued at Philip Morris Co. for sporting a coat of arms on its Marlboro cigaret package, thus implying a royal warrant...
...right to display the royal arms of the United Kingdom over the words "By Appointment to His Majesty" is granted to a select few tradesmen who must have served the King or Queen for three years before applying for the privilege. Since George VI has been King for only two years, his warrants are still rare. He has granted them to 34 and Queen Elizabeth to 31 personal suppliers who served them before they reached the throne. George V issued about 1,000 (he had nine bakers, twelve grocers, eleven chemists).* Altogether, including those granted by Edward VIII, there...
Last fortnight a number of London firms were ordered to remove the royal insignia because they had not been given permission to use it. Asked to name the offenders, the spokesman for the Associated Royal Warrant Holders replied in a shocked voice: "Such things are never revealed...