Royalty took centre stage in today’s paper. It was announced that King George V had visited the army in France (page 9), to which a leader on page 8 rather hyperbolically commended: “A nation which concentrates in loyalty and devotion to the Monarch the full force of its patriotism will learn with joy that his Majesty has been with the troops. They are making the present reign as illustrious as that of any British monarch who ever sent forth his subjects in arms … In King George our armies will feel to be personified all the enthusiastic admiration and gratitude with which the whole British Empire is watching their achievements.”