Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations (150 page)

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. (
below
) Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip: but for the name-changing, their wedding in 1947 would have seen a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha marrying a Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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. (
below
) The funeral of King George V, January 1936. The late king’s cousin, Charles Edward, brings up the rear of the procession wearing a steel German helmet.

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57
. (
above
) Adolf Hitler enters Prague, 15 March 1939.

58
. (
left
) Khust: capital for one day of the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine.

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59
. The ‘Black and Tans’: Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force, 1920, during the Anglo-Irish War.

60
. The Anglo-Irish Treaty signed by Michael Collins, December 1921.

61
. Irish women singing hymns and political songs under guard in Dublin, 1921.

62
. Eamon de Valera takes the salute at an IRA parade, 1922, during the Irish Civil War.

ÉIRE

63
. King George V and Queen Mary, monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland, ride through Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), July 1911.

64
. The Imperial Conference, London, 1926. George V and his prime ministers; W. T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State (
back row, right
).

65
. Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, speaking three words of Gaelic in Dublin Castle, watched closely by the Irish Republic’s
taoiseach
, Enda Kenny, and President Mary McAleese: May 2011, one century after her grandfather’s visit.

IRISH POSTAL HISTORY

66
. British stamps of 1912 bearing the head of King George V, overprinted in Gaelic. (a) ‘Provisional Government of Ireland 1922’ during the currency of the Republic, and (b) ‘Irish Free State 1922’ after the Anglo-Irish Treaty came into force.

67
. Irish Free State, First Series, 1922, Id Red. Although George V remained king, the design omits both the king’s head and the new state’s name, showing instead a map of all Ireland and the unofficial name of Éire.