Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King Edward VIII's realm in which his accession to the Throne had not yet been proclaimed...
...Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King George and in the earl's house Carol...
...died at 68 on May 6, 1910 "of a bad cold" (bronchitis) only five days after catching it. His eldest son, the Duke of Clarence, died of a bad cold within a week of catching it. Therefore Edward VII's second son came to the Throne as George V, aged 44. Last week His Majesty, having celebrated his Silver Jubilee last year, was taken with a bad cold (bronchial catarrh). Five days later he was dead...
...George V not only the Empire but also the whole world saw the sole Emperor of white race not to lose his throne after the War. There was at that time a memorable and tragic hour when even the refugee Romanovs, his cousins, had to be denied visas on which they were to have gone to England on the invitation of George V's impulsive mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. With thrones creaking from Berlin to Constantinople, the best and wisest British Cabinet members urgently advised the House of Windsor not to attract attention to this question by becoming...
Thus His Majesty the Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo is happy in holding the thought that he was not set up by Japan as a puppet, but restored by loyal Chinese to a throne in the realm of his Manchu forefathers-a happy thought flatly contradicted by the facts...