Word: sovereigns
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...irate Scotsmen, Welshmen and Irishmen occasionally point out, ''There are no such persons in existence as the King and Queen of England"-i.e., they are King and Queen of the United Kingdom. The last Sovereign of England was Queen Elizabeth, who died...
...Edward Algernon Fitzroy the abdication message of Edward VIII (TIME, Dec. 21). The first message from new King George VI asked Parliament to make "permanent provision for the purpose of facilitating the uninter rupted exercise of the royal authority" in case of "any incapacity which might over take the Sovereign...
...some this looked as though the Prime Minister had got the King to hatch a scheme which might enable the Government to declare the Sovereign "incapacitated" should he seem about to do anything unconstitutional, but this will depend on how the measure is drafted as a bill, and His Majesty last week was clearly providing also for the case of his own sudden death...
Such death would make 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth the Sovereign, and last week her father asked Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth...
...supreme court of the British Commonwealth of Nations is in London and is called the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The entire Privy Council consists of some 300 British statesmen in all by parts their of the sovereign globe who with the have rank been of "P. C." honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void...