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...Prime Minister, although it is not an unconstitutional act for the King to create a peer or elevate one to a higher rank without the advice of his First Minister, especially when dealing with Royal Blood. Usually the Prime Minister makes a list of people recommended to the Crown for honors, and with the King's assent the list is published on such days as the Sovereign's Birthday, New Year's Day or any special day of national significance...
Standing near the place where Charles I was condemned to death and Cromwell was proclaimed Lord Protector; in the place where the King's Champion used to ride in on a charger and challenge to mortal combat anyone who questioned the right of the King to the Crown; where for many years Coronation Banquets were held, King George V said that " Westminster Hall appealed in a special manner to the mind and manner of the whole English-speaking race. For centuries it had witnessed the growth of the Constitution and had been, as it were, a link between...
...dedication ceremony was attended by Crown Prince Leopold, who placed the first book on the shelves?a volume containing a list of Louvain students who perished...
...Crown Prince Carol served the first tennis ball and Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia, daughter of the Rumanian King, pitched the first ball in a baseball game between the American colony and the Rumanian Government staff...
Tennis circles, severely rocked last week, ceased to rock when William T. Tilden II, national champion, saw to it at Indianapolis that the National Clay Court crown did not accompany the Illinois State diadem out of the country on the swart brows of Manuel Alonso of Spain. The score...