“Honolulu, Hawaii: (At a luau) "…a unique native stunt though the Hawaiian food we were made to eat was too revolting for words…. One got rather tired of the native songs & longed for some of our tunes"”

—  Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

14 April 1920
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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