In reply to our American friend, the King involved was George V (i.e. George
the Fifth, not George Vee).
I hope other responses can describe this friendship better than I. Andrew
Lycett's recent 'Rudyard Kipling' quotes 4 index references under George V for
'relations with RK' but as the first reference is for November 1917, the term
'life-long' seems somewhat relative.
Lycett also notes the pallbearers but says that Professor J.W.Mackail stood in
for Sir James Barrie who was ill.
John Morgan
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