"In connection with the medical bulletins issued periodically from Buckingham Palace," warned King George's doctors, "it should be remembered that while the King's gradual progress toward recovery has been uninterrupted and although no complications have arisen so far, there will inevitably be a period of some anxiety for the next week or ten days." That was the tenor of bulletins all week; doctors did their best not quite to dispel all anxiety.*
Hundreds of Londoners continued to stop at the Palace gates on their way to work, at lunch hour or in the evening, to read the latest bulletins, penciled in bold...
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