Monday, May. 18, 1931
Majority
His Majesty George V was 21 years a King last week. In celebration a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery rattled the windows of May fair with a 21-gun salute. Other royal salutes were fired in Canada. South Africa, India, Australia--wherever a British regiment was quartered or a British warship lay at anchor. At Windsor Castle, George V went for a walk with Queen Mary in the park, knighted his doctor: Henry Linnington Martyn, surgeon-apothecary to the royal household.
A suggestion was made that would have sounded ominous in any other Empire but Britain: that George V should take a three-month holiday each year, "entirely free from the cares of State."
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