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Dining with Queen Mary, her sons and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the royal doctors wore full court dress, gold buttons with the royal crest gleaming on their tail coats above their velvet knee breeches, silk stockings and glistening pumps. A little later His Majesty was found to be beyond hope. With streaming eyes, the Queen and her sons stood at the bedside as George V expired in coma. Turning to the eldest son, Lord Dawson of Penn solemnly made the historic change known. "Your Majesty," he said, "your father is dead."
Instantaneously Edward of Wales be came King Edward VIII, although for malities and proclamations will continue for days. The funeral must be delayed sufficiently to give the World's great time to reach London. Then months of mourn ing must pass before the coronation of His Majesty King Edward VIII.