The marks of royalty
HIS Majesty King George V was once attending a service in the church of St. Martin’s in the Fields, located close to London’s Trafalgar Square.
The preacher was the rector, the controversial Dick Sheppard. Somehow, Sheppard mislaid the notes for his address, and discovered, to his consternation, that they had fallen from the pulpit right in front of the King.
Mercifully, his handwriting was poor, and the King could scarcely have read what he had written; “Loyal and sincere gratitude to H.M., but no soap”.
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