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...Frederick Ponsonby was "a courtier to his fingertips." Three British sovereigns -Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V-employed him as private secretary, equerry and Keeper of the Privy Purse, and in the last year of his life (1935) he was rewarded with a peerage. Ponsonby could speak bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and was "always interested in the possibility of raising King John's treasure from the Wash...
...year-old city of Oslo scrubbed down its streets, hoisted flags and portraits and prepared to be the center of attention as Norwegians began a happy three-day national celebration: the 80th birthday of King Haakon VII, Europe's oldest reigning monarch...
...parliamentary committee appointed to draw up a Civil List for the reign of Elizabeth II last week recommended an increase of $182,000 a year over George VI's allowance of $1,148,000. Even so, Elizabeth II* will be getting much less than her great-grandfather, Edward VII, did back in 1901 when the pound was worth three times as much...
...VII. Thou shalt not be a burden on others...
Thus in 1871 did Poet Alfred Austin report for the British people the illness of their Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The Kingdom of Jordan boasts no such newsy poet as Britain's Laureate Austin, but last week Jordan's King Talal took to the wires to make his own attempt to chronicle the state of his health. In Beirut, Talal's younger brother Naif received three telegrams. The first read: "Expect you in our legation in Rome as soon as possible. Talal." The second read: "Meet at once at the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Lausanne. Talal...