Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draped main balcony of St. James's Palace the young Duke as Earl Marshal, the Garter King of Arms, the Norroy King of Arms and the Clarenceux King of Arms; the four Pursuivants, namely Bluemantle, Portcullis, Rouge Croix and Rouge Dragon; the Herald of York, the Herald of Windsor, the Herald of Richmond, the Herald of Chester, the Herald of Somerset and the Herald ,of Lancaster; two mace bearers and the workaday state heralds who raised silver trumpets and blew a triple flourish...
From London Edward of Wales motored to Windsor. Thence in one of his planes he and the Duke of York flew to Sandringham. There waited the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who must attest each royal birth and death. Ready on parchment were words hailing "the high and mighty Prince" on his becoming "our only lawful and rightful Liege . . . by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India...
Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' Creation she owns! We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame And we've salted it down with our bones (Poor beggars!-It's blue with our bones...
...been generally believed that Queen Victoria was "not amused" by the Widow at Windsor and had her revenge by not appointing Rudyard Kipling to the post of Poet Laureate. In 1930, Mr. Kipling was in Bermuda when the death of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges occurred. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Kipling's cousin, had presented him to King George at a levee; the King and Queen had once invited him to be their guest at Balmoral; and each year he received a crisp Buckingham Palace invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Therefore in Bermuda in 1930 the news that King George...
Rudyard Kipling had his own explanation for why he was not made Poet Laureate and it had no reference to the Widow at Windsor. Some years ago an admirer involuntarily exclaimed, 'I always had thought you were Sir Rudyard...