Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one page of the tome could be called exciting enough to send a tingle or two up the royal spine as His Majesty sat reading in the bright cosy library at Sandringham. Glowingly Sir George relates how in the latter years of the War he often heard discontented Tommies complain that the Monarchy was not absolute enough. "The talk in barrack rooms," he writes unctuously, "struck the note of unswerving loyalty not to the Constitution but to the person of the King. . . . It might have been comparatively easy at that moment to set up an absolute Dictatorship...
...Edward of Wales paid £675 ($3,280) last week for a two-seater De Havilland Gypsy Moth plane with dual controls. Slow and safe, the ship has a cruising speed of but 90 m. p. h., can land on much smaller fields than the Royal Air Force still planes used by heretofore Flying P.' used ie by H. R. Minister H. James and Ramsay MacDonald. On his first flight in the Moth last week, dutiful Scion Wales was piloted to Sandringham to visit his parents, was deposited smartly on their lawn. Later, by handling one of the ship...
...Youngest and most delicate of George V's four sons is Prince George, 26, who has to be careful of his stomach. "Chronic seasickness" was his reason for leaving the Royal Navy last spring. Later he had to give up even desk work at the Foreign Office because of "digestive trouble" (TIME, July 29). Last week it was an nounced that prudent dieting has soothed and strengthened H. R. H.'s gastric ap paratus. On and after Oct. i he will be back again at his Foreign Office stint...
...Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
...seventh birthday of His Majesty Mihai I last fall, Rumanian officials announced that their boy king would not be educated by tutors as are most Royal men-children but would go to school. Democratic, but not too democratic, the school would be composed of 36 small boys specially chosen from Rumania's eight provinces. Presently the school was organized, photographs appeared in Rumania rotogravures of King Mihai studying geography with his jolly schoolmates, fust as suddenly, the school was disbanded. Last week an inquisitive Bucharest editor learned the reason for the rupture...