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...Majesty King George and her Majesty Queen Mary went to the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square, a couple of stone's throws from Buckingham Palace. En route the King caught a cold, later the cold turned to influenza, still later the influenza turned to bronchitis. The King went...
...return. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick came over from Paris to stay with the Kelloggs; he too got wined and dined. The most important and at once the most brilliant of these functions was a dinner given by the Kelloggs in their ambassadorial home (Crewe House) to King George and Queen Mary. To this brilliant function, a long line of lords and ladies was invited-the Londonderrys, the Greys, the Oxfords and Asquiths, the Desboroughs, Lord Cowdray, Lady Leicester, Lord Colebrook, Lady Northcote, Premier and Mrs. Baldwin and Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Chamberlain. Among the Americans present were Ambassador Herrick...
...Youth. †England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the four kingdoms of the British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak no English." Later he was styled "Prince of Wales," and the title has persisted. *The well-known "flight of the Earls," which took place in 1607, while...
Miss Macauley and Queen Victoria on a Desert Isle
...ruled the island. Now the islanders, after 70 years of segregated history, had attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral. Antimacassars covered every cocoa-nut-cloth chairback. On the trees about the premises were graven such verses...