When The English Hymnal first came out in 1906, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Randall Davidson) wanted every parish in his diocese to reject it. On its centenary, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Rowan Williams) wrote a foreword to a book in its celebration. Now he has written a foreword to the new Revised English Hymnal.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Lang wrote to the then PM Stanley Baldwin to tell him that Edward had to leave as soon as possible . Above: Lang and Edward in May 1936.
Known for his shyness, the young Duke of York would have been forgiven had he looked elsewhere when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon rejected his first marriage proposal. Yet he asked twice more.!