The King's Grace 1910-1935 - Taschenbuch

T H E K I N G S G R A C E By kind permission of The Times THE KING Broadcasting at Sandringham May I add very simply and sincerely that if I may be regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and wide-spread family, sharing its life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labours of my reign of well-nigh five-and-twenty years. THE KINGS GRACE 1910-1935 -- The Englishman is taught to love the King as his friend, but to acknowledge no other master than the laws which himself has contributed to enact. GOLDSMITH C itizen of the World. -- P R E F A C E -- THIS book is not a biography of the King, the time for which has happily not yet come, but an attempt to provide a picture-and some slight interpretation-of his reign, with the Throne as the continuing thing through an epoch of unprecedented change. I have incorporated a few passages from my History of the Great War, published in 1922. C O N T E N T S GHAPTEU PROLOGUE - - - PART I I. THE PAGEANT OF SUCCESSION - 11. AN UNEASY HERITAGE - 111. THE RESTLESS YEARS - IV. DESCENSUS AVERNI - - PART I1 I. CONTACT - - .. 11. THE FORTRESS - 111. THE SALLIES - - IV. SURRENDER - - .. . PART 111 I. SOUR-APPLE HARVEST - - - - 243 11. THE CHANGING EMPIRE - - - 272 111. A HOUSE XN ORDER - - - 292 EPILOGUE - - - 3 1 6 INDEX - - - - 321 9 B