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This devotional address entitled, Kings and Queens, priests and priestesses, was given on February 15th of 1966 by Spencer W. Kimball, then a member of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

My beloved brothers and sisters, the title of my address today could be kings and priests,

or it could be a tale of three contemporaries.

Years ago, I spoke to the M.N. and Gleaner Girls in Arizona on the subject of kings and queens,

priests and priestesses, real and eternal royalty.

And today I should like to follow that same path with perhaps some statements from the original talk and with apologies to those few Phoenix people who might have heard it.

In June 1894, three babies were born.

Twins landed in Arizona and the third, a man-child also was delivered in

England, where his birth was heralded on front pages of every newspaper of the realm, for he came

to a royal home where town criers announced hourly the progress of the delivery.

In Pampa's ceremony in the great cathedral, the little fellow was given the name of Edward V.

His father was George V, the Crown Prince, his grandfather, Edward the Seventh, King of England and Wales and Emperor of India.

Young Edward was born heir to an earthly kingdom of many centuries duration, and his destiny

would bring him to the throne with crown and sceptre under the divine right of kings.

Divinely called by the Lord, supposedly, he would

not be responsible to his subjects for his governing, nor to any human court of appeal.

Some thought that such a representative of God could do no wrong. As a child, Edward knew that, barring unforeseen circumstances,

he would someday sit on the throne, where a crown, hold a scepter, where now his grandfather,

Edward the 7th, ruled and where later his father, George V, would reign. He learned that in addition to being

king and emperor, he would also be the head of the Church of England, born to it, not called to

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