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The King’s contribution

22 October 2016

9:00 AM

22 October 2016

9:00 AM

From ‘A Royal contribution’, The Spectator, 7 October 1916:

His Majesty has passed through troublous times, in the constitutional controversy, in the Irish imbroglio, and in the war, when passion rose to its highest point. The temptation to go behind his Ministers, and to snatch popular favour at their expense, must have been tremendous sometimes.

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