For info on this event, google ~~ wikipedia has quite an informative entry.

I just have a dim memory of it, and of the Abdication crisis the same year, & Geo V's Silver Jubilee the previous year, and the Coronation of Geo Vi the year after which occurred on my 5th birthday. Not of course that I was altogether aware of all that was going on, but ours was a political household [my father had been a potential Labour candidate in the election a couple of years before I was born], and I remember loving the word 'Jubilee', and my mother explaining the Abdication in terms I could get. I just heard the name 'Jarrow', as I recall it, & it stuck with me.

~M~