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...This is your regiment-you inspect it," said King George VI to Queen Elizabeth when they went to see a battalion of the Black Watch in 1939. That the royal remark was not a nrere passing-of-the-buck due to occupational fatigue was certified by two facts: 1) the Queen of England is the colonel in chief of the Black Watch, and 2) no Briton, king or commoner, could ever be too tired to inspect one of the most famous and glamorous outfits in British army annals...
...narthex of the mosque, workers successfully uncovered a ninth century mosaic showing Emperor Lee VI, (the Wise) prostrate before Christ enthroned. The southwest vestibule was found to contain a tenth century composition which pictures Emperor Constantine presenting to the Virgin and Child the City he founded and Emperor Justinian giving the Church he built...
...Stockholm, Sweden's new King Gustaf VI took the royal oath, announced that his personal motto would be "Duty Above All," with Queen Louise acknowledged the cheers of his subjects. Then the King picked up his tired little grandson, Crown Prince Carl, 4, heir apparent to Sweden's throne, and carried him off to the quiet of his palace room...
...played it until he was 88. Last January he was unable for the first time in 42 years to deliver his annual address at the opening of Parliament; it was read for him by his son Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who this week at 67 became King Gustaf VI. Sweden's new heir apparent: Prince Carl Gustaf, 4, grandson of the new King...
Born. To George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, 27, music critic, nephew of King George VI, and the Countess of Harewood (nee Stein), 23, Austrian-born pianist: their first child, a son; in London. Name: undecided. Title: Viscount Lascelles. Weight: 7 lbs. 4 oz. Position in line of succession to the British throne: 13th...