Professor Hamilton's Diary: May 6, 1935

King George V celebrates his silver jubilee

Professor Hamilton was too busy to write today. Instead, we will look across the ocean to England to report on the big news of the day: the Silver Jubilee of King George V. This 1921 photo, accessed through Wikimedia Commons, shows the king and Queen Mary with four of their children, from left, Albert, Edward, Henry and Mary. They had two more sons, George and John. John had died in 1919.

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