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THE CROWN JEWELS OF ENGLAND This Edition is limited to fourteen hundred copies (900 for England and 500 for the United States of America), of which this is No. 11320 CASSELL & CO., Ltd.

HIS MAJESTY GEORGE V From the Painting by Sir Luke Fildes, K.C.V.O.

THE CROWN JEWELS OF ENGLAND.

By MAJOR-GENERAL SIR GEORGE YOUNGHUSBAND, K.C.M.G., K.C.I.E., C.B. (Keeper of the Jewel House, Tower of London), and CYRIL DAVENPORT, V.D., F.S.A.

LIC RESIDET HAROLD REX:AN GLORVM STIGANT ARCEPS 000 HIC DEDERUNT: HAROLDO CORO NA REGIS The Coronation of Harold II., afterwards killed at the Battle of Hastings, from the Bayeux Tapestry Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne DEDICATED BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION TO HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V. く S PREFACE INCE the reign of Queen Elizabeth there has been no greater period in the history of the British race than is to be found in the reign of George V. At the end of a war greater than has been known in the history of the world, after four-and-a-half years of heroic effort and untold sacrifice, the Standard of England flies more proudly than it did in the days of the Great Armada. Future generations will look back on this reign as one of the great triumphant eras in the history of nations proud of their British blood, and who speak the English tongue.