Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next will come a brief service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Windsor...
...cousins, had to be denied visas on which they were to have gone to England on the invitation of George V's impulsive mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. With thrones creaking from Berlin to Constantinople, the best and wisest British Cabinet members urgently advised the House of Windsor not to attract attention to this question by becoming hosts to the House of Romanov...
...years which have followed, the House of Windsor has not only survived the General Strike, several Labor (Socialist) Cabinets and Depression, but it has carried onward & upward with an aggressive strength, a rising British devotion to the Crown and an increased influence by the Sovereign personally in guiding Cabinet affairs which were triumphantly due to the remarkable personal qualities of King George and Queen Mary...
...Sandringham the Prince of Wales, with news services sending out advance canned dispatches in which he already figured as King Edward VIII, jumped into a car with the Duke of York, drove at a fast clip for Windsor. Technically Windsor is not a "palace" but a "fortress" and, because of this, bulletins on George V's condition were not posted there as they were at Sandringham House and at Buckingham Palace...
...Windsor the Duke of York was dropped with the Duchess, who was ill with influenza, and Edward of Wales drove on through gathering fog and dusk to Buckingham Palace where the Duke of Gloucester was sitting up with a sore throat. The two brothers spoke briefly. It would have been traditional had the Prince of Wales officially summoned the Prime Minister to come...