Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying. 'Have you forgotten...
...your capacity to forecast, then have said to both of us: 'Gentlemen, you will bid each other good night tonight at the corner of Holloway station, and it will be your fate not to meet again until invited as guests of His Majesty to partake of his hospitality at Buckingham Palace...
...They say the King looks younger!"- breathlessly loyal Britons passed the word. Thousands stood huddled along London curbstones to see and judge for themselves. Beloved George V was coming home at last to Buckingham Palace after his long convalescence at the rustic royal estate of Sandringham. At spick-and-span King's Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been...
...Naval Disarmament plans of "a dear old Quaker" (see p. 26). Next morning, still unwearied, the King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister of the Crown...
...went along too. In the early morning while the laird was dressing the piper promenaded in front of the castle, piping his master a good morning. In emulation of the Scottish lairds, the English kings had their court pipers. Henry VIII was a notable bagpiper. Today in front of Buckingham Palace there parades in the morning the King's Piper. George V keenly enjoys the music, as did his grandmother, Queen Victoria, who kept two court pipers. One of them, Thomas O'Hannigan, went home one day after playing for Her Majesty and died of apoplexy...