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While the King-Emperor lay battling for life in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Dec. 3, et seq.), the royal and imperial authority was exercised in an adjoining room by the Regency Council, presided over by Queen Mary. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture rushed to news-publications "for immediate release" the text of "An Order in Council issued at Buckingham Palace on Dec. 21, 1928," and apparently just discovered by the Department...
George V. A motor ambulance suitable for transporting His Majesty to the Sussex seaside where he will recuperate (TIME, Feb. 4) was driven into the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, last week, and later the Royal physicians announced that they had "thoroughly tested its suitability...
...Ever since it was realized by the British public that the king was seriously ill Buckingham Palace has been literally inundated with patent medicines and bottles containing unguents made from hundred-year-old recipes sent by well-wishers for His Majesty's recovery. . . . There are phials containing green, red, and yellow liquids; there are chest pastes made from fruits and flour, there are unguents of crushed ginger and honey which have been handed down in recipe from generation to generation, and there is a whole drawer full of protective amulets sent by villagers from nearly every county in the country...
...four correspondents who have been privileged to enter Buckingham Palace during the King's illness have learned from servitors that...
...Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George, younger sons and still resident at Buckingham Palace, ask their mother's permission if they wish to sleep later on any given morning than 8 o'clock, the family rising hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...