Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty King Edward VIII and the heir to the throne, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, flew in the same plane 300 miles last week, inspecting aircraft stations. An accident might thus have instantaneously made charming 10 year-old Princess ("Lilybet") Elizabeth, the Sovereign Queen and Empress...
Moreover the assassins "claimed that statesmen close to the Throne had, ever since the London Naval Treaty was signed, been interfering with the Imperial prerogative." This was a poke at Prince Saionji, who is still His Majesty's chief adviser despite nebulous promises by the new Cabinet to make the Emperor and his prerogatives utterly supreme. Finally the assassins, like the new Cabinet, sought "to assure clarification of the national policy, expansion of national defense armaments and stabilization of the peoples-in a word, to bring about the so-called Showa Restoration" under which the Japanese Empire...
...Chief trouble, Vatican attendants admitted, is that the Pope, once a sturdy mountain climber, finds it difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable washstand and toilet, with a cabinet containing first-aid medicaments. To this, and presumably to one like it at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope could, in case of an emergency, be rushed by doctors...
...youth in school in England, prior to the new King's departure for Cairo. May g encouraged the Covent Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream Guards at Aldershot, shouting in at the mess hall door "Any complaints?" May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere...
These savage herders and fighters last week roused their sheiks in British-mandated Transjordania to urge a single wild cavalry sweep into Palestine to massacre Jews and Britons. Mild Emir Abdullah Ibn Hussein, who holds his throne by the favor of Britain, tried to soothe his sheiks while the Emir's son, Crown Prince Talal, whipped them up to a fighting frenzy...