“Cologne, Germany: "Claud & I had a stroll in the centre of town afterwards & had great fun making the Hun men civilians get off the pavement for us …. It does one worlds of good to know how humiliating it must be for the Huns"”

9 January 1919
Around the World with the Prince of Wales

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king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894–1972

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