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...carriage bearing George V had rolled away. Assenting, the King then proposed to start the procession at once. The Queen reminded him that 3 p. m. was the hour at which Londoners expected the cortege to leave the station. Through the plate glass window of the salon. Edward VIII could be seen gently urging his point. Then he swung swiftly to the door of the car. Stepping out, His Majesty ordered the guard of honor, which had frozen at rigid attention, to "stand at ease'' until just before...
...ordeal of walking behind the casket, upon which now rested the Imperial State Crown brought from the Tower of London told visibly on Edward VIII as he tramped the additional three and one-half miles. At one point London's massed and silent grief for George V was broken by a brief, explosive cheer for Edward VIII. This was instantly chopped short by His Majesty who frowningly jerked his head in the direction of the cheer. As he plodded on. His Majesty began to limp from fatigue. As he forced himself on beside the Dukes of York and Gloucester...
...King's Guard wore their heaviest cloaks, but the four officers rigid at the corners of the bier stood in their uniforms only, chilled to the marrow. The great throng's moment of deepest emotion came when it was known that Queen Mary and Edward VIII, unannounced, had quietly entered by a side door. Down the mile-long line passed the simple affecting words, "The King and Queen are with...
...house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King George and in the earl's house Carol II was styled officially a "guest of King Edward VIII," the explanation being offered that other foreign kings & queens were occupying all available suites in Buckingham Palace...
...last rites, simple but majestic, were performed by George V's lifelong friend the Archbishop of Canterbury and highest Anglican prelates in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Fittingly, since England was burying her "Sailor King," his son Edward VIII wore the uniform George V held so much more dear than the ermine, the purple and the cloth of gold: the blue of Admiral in the Royal Navy...