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...contrary, the State Visit was taken with utmost seriousness at Buckingham Palace. A banquet of thoroughgoing sumptuousness was got ready. His Majesty George V welcomed and even embraced the Dauphin of France, latest of the Bourbons. Her Majesty Queen-Empress Mary was ashimmer with diadems usually reserved for great occasions...
...peculiar reason the Buckingham banquet was especially merry. Reason: the British Royal House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, which changed its name to the House of Windsor during the War, became slightly estranged from the French House of Bourbon, when a most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth...
Retired. Benjamin Wisner Bacon, 68, Buckingham professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School since...
Last week these things were done, in the glittering Throne Room of Buckingham Palace, by 16 U. S. citizenesses and many another, at the two final courts of the London Season...
...Drive me to Buckingham Palace," said H.R.H. Prince George, youngest son of the King-Emperor, to a taxi chauffeur...