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The Hearst Press reported that one Edna Brown, 19, a British hotel waitress, swam the Thames River to the grounds of Windsor Castle, emerged "radiant" in her "youthful attractiveness" as King George V came up on horseback with two grooms. Miss Brown, "dumbfounded, curtsied"; the King bowed, asked, "Where is your boat?" He watched while she swam back. Next day the Crown Land Office wrote the hotel across the river a sharp letter. Miss Brown was reprimanded, resigned her job, then was rehired at...
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