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GE0RGEOFWINDSO
British Monarch the Founder Of
New Royal Line.

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New Royal Line.
The shadow Of a German nationality
no longer obscures the light Of the
English nation, and the Fifth George
Of the Hanoverian line Of British rul.
ers has buried the ancient German
patronymic Of his ancestors, Guelph"
In the vaults Of the English sWind-
sor."
Just about two centuries ago the
German George I ascended the throne
Of England and the Stuarts were sup
planted by the Guelphs. OF ill the
i've Georges Of that house the present
holder Of the title il the most English
OF them all. True, his father, Edward
VII, proved a good king, and a thor
ough Englishman, and his grandmoth-
er, Victoria, had a grand and success.
full reign, and through her mother she
inherited her adopted title Of the
House of Saxe-Voburg, Of which fam.
lily her consort, Prince Albert, was q.
member.
But the bitter feelings aroused By
the great war, the crimes unblushingly
committed by the Germans, have
caused such q wave Of disgust to
sweep owe England that the king him.
self has unhesitatingly abandoned ev.
cry claim to the ancient pedigree Of
his German ancestors and, like his
great ancestor, Edward ], has declared
for an English England, untrammeled
BY foreign blood ties, unhampered BY
foreign titles.
The German George who inherited
the English throne through his great
great-grandmother, a daughter OF
James I Of England, and who inner.
tied his title Of Guelph from his great
great-grandfather, Frederick of Bo-
hernia, who started the Thirty Years.
War. could not speak a word Of Eng
fish and really hated his new kingdom,
but he was the connecting link through
the Stuarts between the last Of the
Guelphs and the first Of the Normans,
the Conqueror william.
The English George is also the
founder Of a new royal line, and In the
House Of Windsor he has restored to
the English people an English title
that recalls the glorious memories Of
the Houses of Tudor, of Lancaster, of
York, and Of the Plantagenets, when
the Henrys. the Edwards and the
"Good Queen Bess" held court in the
Castle Of Windsor, and hunted and
strolled through the verdant acres of
that oldest and most English Of Brit
aims public places.
Under the existing conditions the
title OF Windsor, chosen by George v,
Is perhaps the most popular act of his
reign.
For ver 1000 years Windsor Castle
has been the abode of English royalty.
Edward the Confessor abode there
William the Conqueror added to 1t
Edward I built one Of its towers and
Edward III created in it's halls the ia.
nous Order of the Garter.
Here it was that "Harry Of Mon
mouth" disported with his friends
where Edward Of the White Rose, and
Henry Of the Red Rose alternately
lived during the famous Wars Of the
Roses; here Shakespeare strolled ani
wrote, and here Queen Bess received
the homages Of Essex, and Leiceste,
and Raleigh and Drake and all those
great ones Of the golden age.
Here it a that Wolsey thrivet
and bluff King Hal threw of the for
eign influences Of Rome and Spain. II
fact, Windsor was the National center
Of Old England; the England Of tn,
roast beef age; the England Of tn,
fearless sea rover, and the steady ar
cher; in fact, the Merry England, o.
which Shakespeare and Jonson ant
others have written; the England
where Englishmen reigned before tn,
Stuart or the Hanoverian were foistet
onto the throne.
But through all the changes o.
dynasties Windsor has remained thu
abode Of royalty. There lie the bonea
Of not q few Of the wearers Of th,
ermine, in the vaults beneath the chap
el, and there where his Han0verian IN
cestors lie 1t IL fitting that George Y
should bury the German titles and 70
vfve the ancient glories Of the Eng
lish nation In the title George Of Wind
sor. For there IL the heart Of Eng
land; 1000 years Of her history; q
monument Of her glory; the proudest
name the King could adopt, "Engfist
Wipdsor!"- Thomas b. Blynn, in Phil
adelphia Record.