Battle Of The Royal Brothers: King Edward Viii, King George Vi, And The Rift That Changed History
One more exciting ceremony was His Majesty’s consecration, in his official capacity as Grand Master of England, of the Chancery Bar Lodge of Freemasons in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. The King sat in the Grand Master’s chair, wearing the full regalia of his office at his left sat the Earl of Lathom, Pro-Grand Master, and at his appropriate, the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, Deputy Grand Master. In Might of the following year the King presided at the annual festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls, and announced that Queen Alexandra had consented to grow to be the Patroness of the institution....