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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1937.
The STORY of
by FRANK C. PAPËR
THE CROWN JEWELS
COLONEL BLOOD'S THEFT IN 1671 (CONCLUDED)
AS SOON AS THE THIEVES MADE OFF:EDWARDS PULLED THE GAG- OUT OF HIS MOUTH AND SHOUTED "TREASON!""MURDER !"—
·HIS CRIES WERE HEARD BY HIS SON, WHO HAD ARRIVED MEANTIME, AND BY MISS EDWARDS. - THEY RUSHED TO THE JEWEL CHAMBER, AND SAW WHAT HAD HAPPENED. ~ WITH GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND MISS EDWARDS RAN ONTO THE PARADE GROUND SHRIEKING
THE CROWN IS STOLEN!"
BLOOD AND HIS ACCOMPLICES RACED ALONG THE WHARF TO WHERE THEIR HORSES STOOD IN READINESS. -
ONE MAN SUCCEEDED IN GALLOPING OFF BUT HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST A POLE STICKING OUT OF A WAGON AND WAS THROWN. AFTER A FIERCE STRUGGLE THE THIEVES WERE CAPTURED AND PLACED IN THE TOWER DUNGEONS.
WHEN CHARLES T WAS INFORMED THAT MERRY MONARCH ROARED WITH LAUGHTER! HE ORDERED BLOOD TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE HIM AND, INSTEAD OF BEING EXECUTED; BLOOD WAS GIVEN A POST IN HIS MAJESTYS BODY-GUARD!
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A KING WHO OWED FOR HIS CORONATION ROBES
B
the
ECAUSE George IV. was not Mr. Baldwin is another of
the sort of man to worry over- most difficult of great public figures much about his debts, Madame Tus- to put into wax.
saud's have just been able to lend Then there are the Royal Prin- the London Museum two of his Cocesses, whose figures have to be re- ronation robes.
modelled every year, as they grow
The robes will be used during ajup. series of lectures at the Museum.
"They're both taller than the Mr. now," said
fu-
"We bought them from Messrs. figures we have Holbeck," Mr. John Tussaud told John Tussaud. "We're going to do the Press in an interview. "The sup-them both again in the near position is that they were able to ture.' get the robes back when George IV failed to pay up.
habit of his."
Even
before he
It was a little
"
Constant Changes
Even among their elders changes the came to throne, George IV had debts appear. Age and worry leave their because the Tussauds in spite of marks and
amounting to £650,000
a large grant from Parliament. are great artists. each change is
Weighed 1 cwt.
faithfully recorded on the figures.
Wax In
wax
And all the the Tussauds
The figures themselves do not Tussaud's staff are now busy put-last many years. They lose their ting the finishing touches to the freshness and have to be replaced.
robes for their
Hands new Coronation figures of the present King and Queen...
with the rest of "Strange contrast, isn't it?" com-the world. Every new celebrity has mented Mr. Bernard Tussaud.to be modelled. There is never "Those faded old robes of a mon- any resting.
have to keep!
arch who even refused to let his The highlights of history, central wife attend the Coronation cere-figures. of triumph and disaster, all-are wax mony and here replicas of robes rulers and criminals that will be worn by an ideally hap-[in their experienced hands. py couple."
There is one thing all Royalty has to suffer on Coronation Day the weight of their robes.
The deep red velvet robe of George IV weighs almost lewt. And
GRIM RELIC OF
THE WAR
in addition is the weight of the Skeletons To Be Buried
train..
“Difficult” Mr. Baldwin
Royalty and the Cabinet are
In Military Graves
Paris, To-day.
a The skeletons of 103 French and constant source of anxiety to the German soldiers who fell in the Tussauds..
violent fighting round Arras in the When they see “Cabinet Changes" Great War have been unearthed by on the newspaper bills Tussauds farmers. have to get busy.
The names of eight of the Ger- The public is naturally more par-man soldiers could be definitely esta- ticular about royalty than about blished since their identification anyone else
and yet it is a royal discs w
were found.
head which has given the Tussauds The skeletons have been brought more trouble than any other head to the nearest French and German in the world. Even now they are military cemeteries for burial. not satisfied with it.
Trans-Ocean.
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