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Personality: A devout Methodist from the middle class, he is exception to Tory pattern of leadership, which is Anglican, Etonian and upper class. He lives modestly in a Belgravia apartment with his young (27) wife, his former secretary whom he married in 1951, and three-year-old daughter; dresses immaculately in Savile Row suits, sports a Foreign Office bowler with aplomb, is supremely sure of himself...
...Mistake. Cambridge-educated and an ex-Grenadier Guardsman, "King Freddie," as Londoners came to know him, bore his fate with philosophical good manners. Sustained by a tax-free allowance of ?8,000 from the Crown, he set up housekeeping in a tastefully furnished flat in London's fashionable Belgravia, passed his time reading, attending the theater, discussing everything from art to EDC with old friends, and in general playing the part of a serious-minded and well-behaved West End gentleman. Britons came to admire the Kabaka's refusal to foment trouble; they were even more impressed...
Last week, in what was described as a change of "situation," not policy, a special dispatch rider from Kwini Elizabeth rode over to King Freddie's Belgravia flat with a message from Her Majesty. It said in effect that if the Buganda Lukiko (Parliament) wanted him back and was willing to accept a few constitutional reforms limiting his power, the Kabaka could go home and be king again. Unmentioned in the note was the fact that the Colonial Office, already deeply troubled by race war in Kenya and rising black nationalism in Britain's West African colonies, wants...
...Monsignor Royford, an American-born prelate who has made his niche among Belgravia's "ancient dames and debutante Pekinese...
...listen to page upon page of second-rate smart talk on the one hand and chummy religious matter on the other. The Dove with the Bough of Olive is a brave and interesting try, but it seems to prove that any author who attempts to mix the frivolities of Belgravia with the profundities of Heaven is in mortal danger of going straight to Hollywood...