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...from Portsmouth, flags flying, guns booming, shot the royal yacht Victoria and Albert-King George, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught aboard. At Spithead, the King reviewed, for the first time since 1914, the British grand fleet, consisting of 194 warships, which steamed past him in four rows, each ten miles long. Ratu Rabici and Ratu Veli, Fiji Chiefs, journeyed to London to converse with King George and to thank him for the benefits of 50 years of British rule. They said that the King expressed great pleasure that the people of Fiji were happy and contented...
Queen Marie is the daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, uncle of George V, and of Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia. She is, therefore, first cousin to King George, by birth a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by Royal Proclamation a Windsor,* by marriage a Hohenzollern, having married into the Catholic branch of that family when she became the bride of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Rumania...
...Queens have had the privilege to get so near their people. I have really gone amongst them, there where very few go." When in the agonies of War she was forced to leave the grave of her baby son and become a refugee with the other members of the Royal Family, she turned to her people, particularly to the soldiers who adored her, and so carried out her promise...
...there is another side to her character. She has not earned the title of "Diplomat of the Balkans" for nothing. It is erroneously assumed that she earned the title for her work in marrying her son and daughters into Balkan royal families. She herself says, however, that "my daughters married off themselves." No doubt at all that she married off her son, Carol, to Princess Marie of Yugo-Slavia. But she is a real power, abroad and at home, so much so that King Ferdinand has been described as a cipher, which is partly true. She is credited with forcing...
...royal host and hostess were affable, interested, loquacious in Buck- ingham Palace Gardens that afternoon. The New York Times, with seeming bad taste, headlined: "AMERICANS TAKE TEA IN KING'S BACK