“ The King Over the Water ”
OXFORD STUDENTS WILLING TO FIGHT FOR STUARTS United Press Association— By Electric tefcrupn —» •.tivriti... lONDON, Feb. 1. Fifty undergraduates assembled at the Martyrs’ Memorial, Oxford, proclaimed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria the legitimate heir to the Throne of Britain as a desceudent of the Stuarts. Tlie proclamation sneered at tho Houso of Windsor for “failing to defend the dignity of the Crown and the liberties of the people”. The ceremony was over before the police could intervene on the sustainable charge of high treason. The participants, who wore Jacobite iwhite roses, went off to dine and toast '“the King over the Water”. The organiser declared that many Oxford undergraduates would willingly hgbt on behalf of the Stuarts arid would not attend the Corouafiou ccU-bratior-S.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 5
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129“ The King Over the Water ” Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 5
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