Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week I had two good views of the Royal Family without the aid of field glasses. The first was at the Duke of Northumberland's wedding in Westminster Abbey. The second was at the Tate Gallery (TIME, June 24), where I spent the better part of an hour and a half cutting around corners to intercept the royal entourage in their meanderings...
...tenth Duke of Northumberland, lineal descendant of Shakespeare's Harry Hotspur and of Charles II; and Lady Elizabeth Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 24, daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch, whose Scottish ancestors feuded with the English Percys for four centuries; both for the first time; in Westminster Abbey, London, with the Royal Family present. The duke crossed the border on a black charger to court his bride in true Percy style...
...priest, told him: "If I'm going to die, I'd rather die in the Catholic Church than out of it." After World War I service as a captain (with the Red Cross), he headed for Rome and the priesthood. At 63, Father Diman entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, where he cleaned corridors, dug ditches and performed penances with novices...
Pilgrims who flocked to Edward II's tomb in St. Peter's Abbey (now Gloucester Cathedral) never got a good look at the King's recumbent, alabaster effigy; it lay too close under an elaborate canopy. Now, in the most recent issue of England's Architectural Review to reach the U.S., pilgrims and tourists could at last look at Edward face to face. "By kind permission of the Dean," the Architectural Review's photographer clambered up inside the canopy to photograph the curly-bearded King, headon...
...House of Lords Britain's most revered document came up for examination. As the Lords voted to lend the Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...