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...self-governing dominions-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland-together with the secretary of State for India. In its original form it was called the Colonial Conference and first met when the Premiers represented their Dominion Governments at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. In 1907, however, owing to its growing importance, its name was changed to the Imperial Conference and it was presided over by the Prime Minister of Great Britain instead of the Secretary of State for the Colonies...
...fair Rosamund Godolphin. He is, however, taunted with his former piracy by Rosamund's young brother, Peter, and by Sir John Killigrew, who also wishes to marry Rosamund. Of course the great Sir Walter Raleigh and Hawkins had in their time been pirates and knighted for it by Queen Elizabeth; but Sir Oliver rightly resents the insult and nearly kills Sir John in a duel. Unfortunately young Lionel Tressilian, a scapegrace, kills Peter Godolphin in a drunken duel. Sir Oliver shelters his brother and takes the blame, and Rosamund believes him guilty...
Four hundred members of the Mauretania party which recently arrived in Southampton will visit Windsor Castle while the King and Queen are in residence. A meeting with royalty was not on the party's itinerary and it is not usual for anyone to visit the castle when the Royal Family is there. The King, however, has shown a marked inclination to meet transatlantic visitors. It is recalled that Ambassador Harvey was last year allotted far more tickets for a Buckingham Palace garden party than have ever been accorded to an American...
...Prince of Wales will leave London on April 27 for Brussels, where he will be the guest of the King and Queen of the Belgians. The purpose of his visit is nonpolitical; he is going to Belgium to unveil a war memorial erected to the memory of British soldiers who fell in the Great...
...Zita-Queen, lady, unsensational memoirist...