Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guard was being changed at Buckingham Palace last week as Prime Minister Attlee drove through the wrought-iron gates. Attlee had come to tell the King, in an hour's audience, what members of Labor's Old Guard he was firing, what new recruits he was bringing into his Cabinet, in the biggest reshuffle since the Socialists came to power...
Princess Elizabeth, according to plans announced at Buckingham Palace last week, will not leave home for Westminster Abbey until 11:16 on the morning of her wedding day. Bridegroom Philip Mountbatten is scheduled to be in the Abbey at 11:15. The New York Sunday News explained this in a headline which Britons will doubtless regard as the century's worst piece of American bad taste. The headline: NO LAST-HOUR SNEAK FOR PHIL...
Freshmen, all of whom won letters in secondary school competition, represent such minor league teams as Winsor, Buck such minor league teams as Winsor, Buckingham, Bryn Mawr School, Albany Academy, and Bolmont High. The most promising among them are Jean McCormick, Ann Loomis, Joan Gardiner, Mary Connor, Penny Hughes, Valentine Loring, Jennifer Post, Cynthia Williams, Rosamond Johnson, Enid Maslon, and Mary Brandt...
Princess Elizabeth, announced Buckingham Palace, would stick by the old wording in the Book of Common Prayer's marriage service. Others might now "cherish," but, future Queen or not, she would promise to "obey" her husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials...
Princess Elizabeth was assured a packed house for her wedding procession. Sold out a month in advance: all the window space in all the buildings along the route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey-three-quarters of a mile...