Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coordinator Berry's offer, cracked an associate, was in tune with the times but sounded less like Edward VIII's offer to give up the throne than like Mrs. Simpson's offer to give up the King...
With a new Queen Elizabeth now on the Throne-Chair next to the Throne, it was necessarily made official last week that Queen Mary is now "Mary, the Queen-Mother...
...James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, who has been in scandalous eclipse since his resignation from the Cabinet after the Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante), is nevertheless a Privy Councilor for life and last week was out in full regalia with the 300-odd other Privy Councilors in the Throne Room of St. James's Palace to hear King George VI read his accession address: "... I take up the heavy task. . . . My first act ... to confer on [Edward] a dukedom. . . . He will henceforth be known as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. ... I declare to you my adherence...
Arthur Brisbane: "Magnificent, perhaps, but perhaps unnecessary. . . . The Throne and the life around it breeds weakness. . . . It is not necessary to tell ambitious young American women . . . how Mrs. Simpson will feel when she marries what is left of the 'king...
...legislated that Prince Edward and his heirs shall be free to marry whom they please without having first to obtain the King's consent as ordinary members of the Royal Family must do, further that neither Prince Edward nor any heir of his shall ever occupy the British Throne...