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Blushes stained the cheeks of Guards officers and Scotland Yard officials royal scarlet last week. At Windsor Castle, Guardsman Harris of Edward of Wales's own Welsh Guards was court-martialed for falling asleep at his post while the King and Queen were in residence! "I felt ill, sir." said Guardsman .Harris, "and everything went black-like in front of me." At Buckingham Palace sneak thieves sneaked into the Royal Mews and stole from the hooks where it hung the solid gold bosses, buckles, and bangles that glitter on the scarlet leather harness of the eight horses that pull...
...honor the World Monetary and Economic Conference hospitable George V gave last week the first garden party to be held at Windsor Castle since the War- a party which His Majesty decided should be for men only...
Showers burst on Windsor a half hour before the party, cleared up just in time for Mrs. Cordell Hull. Mrs. Cox and other U. S. Delegation wives to enter the Palace gardens without getting soaked. They and their husbands were presented to King George and Queen Mary under the great scarlet and gold durbar tent which is always dry. "The King and Queen were wonderful!" cried the wife of Canadian-born U. S. Senator Couzens, emerging from the tent. ''They are real people...
...feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief delegates in cutaways, white-robed Indians, the gaily turbaned Hejaz delegate and the head of only one state, President Schulthess of Switzerland. George V, who had driven straight in from Windsor Castle, sprang an immediate surprise. Instead of speaking straight English (as scheduled) he skipped back & forth between English and French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs...
...Hearst Press reported that one Edna Brown, 19, a British hotel waitress, swam the Thames River to the grounds of Windsor Castle, emerged "radiant" in her "youthful attractiveness" as King George V came up on horseback with two grooms. Miss Brown, "dumbfounded, curtsied"; the King bowed, asked, "Where is your boat?" He watched while she swam back. Next day the Crown Land Office wrote the hotel across the river a sharp letter. Miss Brown was reprimanded, resigned her job, then was rehired at King George's request. Headlined Hearstpapers: GIRL IN ONE-PIECE SUIT CURTSIES TO KING...