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Queen Mary, many other members of the Royal Family, peers, Cabinet Ministers, Italian diplomats. The greetings exchanged were of marked personal cordiality...
...Cenotaph, were present at a State Ball given in their honor, visited the British Empire Exhibition, the Zoo, attended a great luncheon in the Guild Hall. At the Italian Embassy, the Italian Sovereign and his Consort gave a dinner to which the British King and Queen, members of the Royal Family, many Government and distinguished people were invited. They then departed amid volleys of British "Hip, Hip, Hurrahs" and "Gawd Bless 'ems," Italian vivas and salutes galore...
...Republicans and Communists, the most serious criticism leveled at the King is that he does not appear often enough in public. The truth is that he is first a domestic man and then a King. When his children were young he was frequently to be found in the Royal nursery with the Queen, playing mumbletypeg on the floor...
Amid the ruins of Pompeii, the Royal University of Naples celebrated its 700th anniversary by a picturesque pageant. Ancient rites of Parthenope (the Greek Naples) were staged in the twilight, including the "lampaded-romiae," wherein beautiful young women in classic drapery ran about handing symbolically from one generation to another the flaming torch of Life and Science...
...France to give the Royalists even a fighting chance. If anything the administration will pass into the hands of the extreme Left. England needs a king to maintain its existing form of government, since much of the power of the Commons rests upon its use and control of the royal prerogative; but in France a king could be no more useful, although certainly more expensive, than a president. One would certainly advise M. Daudet and his Camelots to foregather at Oxford, traditionally the home of lost causes...