Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune with ancient tradition Lord Hugh was installed last week in the presence of the genial and patriarchal Dean of Windsor representing King Edward VIII, Eton's Fellows, scholarly Eton Headmaster Claude Aurelius ('The Emperor") Elliott, and 1,100 top-hatted Etonians. Up to the outer doors of School Yard walked Lord Hugh with stately, processional steps. His three knocks on the great oak door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School...
...Empire Salesman, Edward VIII bore in manly silence the fact that eight out of nine British planes which took off on the recent race to South Africa failed to arrive (TIME, Oct. 12). At the first opportunity, Salesman Edward's private secretary Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge released for publication this boost: "The King will be glad if the Secretary of State will convey to Squadron-Leader Swain his Majesty's congratulations on his fine achievement in breaking the altitude record with all-British equipment." Part of Hero Swain's equipment was a new type of air-tight...
...Viceroy of India. Immediately within his charge are not only the eleven provinces of British India but the 562 jealously and ornately sovereign native States, each ruled by an Indian Prince who to his subjects is in effect a king. Over these the Viceroy must reign for Edward VIII with that blameless private life and awful magnificence which British school children are taught to see in His Majesty the King & Emperor. Last week it became the function of Lord Linlithgow to see that each of the Indian Princes who must sign a so-called "Instrument of Accession" in order...
Husky, snub-nosed, 19, she started to play golf seven years ago, got instruction from her father and Edward VIII's favorite professional, Archie Compston. Putting - the department of golf in which women are most noticeably inferior to men - is Pam's strong point. She practices it two hours daily, does it better than any other girl golfer in the world...
...peerage of Thomond since 1774, the title had be come extinct. Last week, though in London representatives of the British Crown denied resurrecting the title, Oilman O'Brien proudly exhibited elaborately stamped documents which, he announced, entitled him and his wife to make their bow before King Edward VIII at his Coronation next...