Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duncan to become King of Scotland. All Britain held its breath. Proud, loyal Scots piled mountainous bonfires on Hunter's hill and neighboring heights which rise above the castle, made ready to send the news blazing over the mountain tops. Not in generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain's telephones, prepared a special wire from Glamis castle to the Royal Yacht Squadron (not "club") at Cowes to carry first word to King George. That able obstetrician Sir Henry Simson and the Duchess of York's dour...
Edward of Wales, heir to the throne, is, and would like to remain, a bachelor. Next in succession is the studious, slightly stuttering Duke of York, of whom Edward P. has often privately told his friends: "He would make a far better King than I." Third in succession at the present time is effervescent, curly-headed Princess Elizabeth, "Princess Lilybet," King George's favorite grandchild, now aged 4. Though Britain's two greatest rulers were women, politicians dislike queens. A Man-Child was sorely needed, much-longed-for last week...
...Majesty's government, delayed his arrival at the castle almost as long as possible. Tradition demanded his presence in the anteroom of the Duchess' bedchamber at the moment of delivery to protect the public's rights, to see and certify that the baby, possible heir to the throne, really was the Duchess' own, not a changeling...
...Reece in the G. O. P. primary, loudly resented the President's "intrusion." declared: "The time hasn't come when any man, before offering himself for office, must make a pilgrimage to the distant shrine of the great political boss and humbly climb up the golden stairway to the throne and kiss his majesty's great...
...French foreign office a significant remark was heard. "Mais out, they are parading His Royal Highness through Europe to prove to the various govern ments and peoples that he is really fit to succeed his father on the Spanish throne...