Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Majesties gave timely notice of an excursion by all members of the immediate Royal Family to the town of Giggleswick, where the first total eclipse of the sun to be visible in England during Their Majesties' lifetime was to be ceremoniously observed...
Because most Britons dearly love such quaint phenomena of Nature as eclipses, tens of thousands of excursionists aped the expected royal pilgrimage. At the last moment threatening weather caused Queen Mary to remain snug at Buckingham Palace. The King, not so easily daunted, made a short excursion from London out to Newmarket. There, 170 miles fom Giggleswick, His Majesty rode out upon his horse at dawn and ruefully observed only a thin crescent of light in a cloudy sky at the moment of eclipse...
...Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York returned last week from their Australian tour (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), in the course of which they inaugurated the new Federal Capital of Australia at Canberra (TIME, May 16), and circumnavigated the globe...
...Soon the royal party hastened to Buckingham Palace, where the Duchess of York ran to the cradle of her 14-month-old baby whom she had not seen for six months...
Prince Henry, third son of George V, spoke modestly enough at a Royal Academy banquet in London, saying: "Please remember that by profession I am a soldier, and that a soldier's training does not lead along the high road...