Word: viii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American sweetheart, but the cup breathed less of May than of dollars. For the first time in 400 years, the English had turned to the manufacture of mead, a wine (fermented from honey) which was the drink of kings and commoners in England from Beowulf to Henry VIII.* At the village...
...since Edward VIII gave up his throne for Wally Simpson had society anywhere suffered a comparable constitutional crisis. All week long, under giant camelthorn trees at Serowe, thatched-hut capital of the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland in South Africa, the tar-black chieftains of the Bamangwato tribe pondered and palavered...
...White Queen from London. But the British government would have to give approval first. "An extremely difficult problem," noted the Manchester Guardian. "Approval would scandalize . . . white South Africans . . . Rejection might irretrievably offend the [black] peoples . . . This is on its lesser scale a crisis comparable with the abdication of Edward VIII and its possible implications are almost unlimited...
...granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Clyde Harris, 31, Texas interior decorator, onetime Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer (with the U.S.M.G. in Darmstadt); in a 1,000-year-old castle near Hechingen, Germany. Blonde Princess Cecilia, once (1936) rumored to be a possible bride for Britain's Edward VIII, will live with her husband in an Amarillo, Tex. apartment...
...still king. Her Uncle David, then Prince of Wales, had shown no signs of relinquishing his heritage when it came. Even should her father, the Duke of York, become king, there was still an elder sister ahead of Margaret. -Five years later her Uncle David became King Edward VIII. Then, suddenly his reign was over, and he went off to marry Wallis Warfield. "Are they going to cut off his head?" Margaret asked her big sister expectantly when she heard the news. When she finally understood that her own father was to be the monarch, her interest gave...