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...speaker who could not be arrested preached flat disloyalty to George V and mere lip loyalty to the British Crown before a huge audience at Harrismith in the Union of South Africa, a British Dominion. "We don't accept the King of England," he roared, "but only his Crown...
...heroic city of Mons is known to smart Belgians as the seat of a somewhat narrow-minded and Mrs. Grundyish local aristocracy. Therefore when Swedish-born Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium visited Mons some weeks ago, she was believed to have committed a thoroughgoing faux pas by producing her small gold cigaret case, at the close of a Civic High Tea, and snapping her cosmopolitan lighter...
...master she stamped her foot, cried: "I am afraid, Meinheer, that you are negligent. ... I am the Princess of the Netherlands, sole heiress to the Throne. ... I am not accustomed to change trains." Oddly enough such displays of temper proved extremely popular among stolid Hollanders, who rejoiced that their Crown Princess seemed to possess all the characteristic dash and spirit of the Royal House of Orange. Wise Queen Emma curbed her daughter so adroitly that the present Queen Wilhelmina was once heard to exclaim with girlish penitence. "Oh, I've been naughty again! Mother says so with her eyes...
...cold, relentless businessman who first exploited good Mother Congo and her Blackamoors as his hirelings, slaves and strumpets. The strumpeteer was King Leopold II of the Belgians (1835-1909), detested uncle and immediate predecessor of beloved King Albert I. Uncle Leopold went wickedly a-travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call the International Conference...
...very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred the English barons to demand the Magna Carta of John; later (after John's death) he supported the crown against the nobles. Thomas Cranmer (1533-56), himself twice married (first to "Black Joan," relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn at Cambridge where...