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...January a fleet white lieutenant general hurled his forces into Ethiopia. By April the capital had fallen, the Emperor had committed suicide. By June the last of the British troops had left Ethiopia, to the great satisfaction of their Sovereign, the late great Queen Victoria. The year...
Arrayed as Admiral of the Fleet, the Sovereign last week held the first investiture of the new Edwardian reign at Buckingham Palace. Trooping gravely in came the distinguished Britons who figured in the last New Year's Honors List (TIME, Jan. 13), which beloved George V approved but did not live to sign. Of these the most famed is Feminist Christabel Pankhurst, who became at the hands of Edward VIII a sedately honored Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...Sovereign was also graciously pleased last week to make a precedent-shattering decision with respect to British stamps. Ever since the first British adhesive stamp was issued in 1840, the likeness of the Sovereign has been a head-&-neck. Experts of the Post Office have maintained that to show the Sovereign at waist-length or full-length on anything so small as a stamp would be to shrink the royal likeness until it was virtually unrecognizable, even in the case of a Sovereign with a distinctive beard...
...King figured during the War primarily as an Army man, because he has never had an active Navy command like his father, and because in recent years he has taken special interest in the Royal Air Force, Post Office civil servants were further startled last week when the Sovereign commanded that on the new waist-length stamps he is to appear in naval uniform, bareheaded...
Ever since Victoria's blameless Consort Albert introduced the knee-length frock coat or "Prince Albert," it has been required wearing at Buckingham Palace for officials in "close attendance" on the Sovereign. This week King Edward ordered worn instead the morning coat...