Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decent orchestra seats instead of the neck-craning royal box. Squiring Elizabeth was Lieut. Nigel Page of the Blues (Royal Horse Guards), and with Margaret Rose was Lieut. Charles Petherick of the Tins (Life Guards). After the show the Guardsmen took their "dates" straight home, bade them goodnight at Buckingham Palace...
Princess Elizabeth of England was unofficially engaged to two foreign princes -according to rumors in each prince's country. Within eleven days Buckingham Palace denied that she was about to marry either 41-year-old Prince Regent Charles of Belgium, or 24-year-old Prince Philip of Greece...
...grey, but millions of Londoners lined the route of the royal procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. WRENs in uniform perched on the Admiralty roof; pajama-clad residents of Carlton House Terrace clung to chimneys. The cheers swelled in ear-splitting waves. By historic chance, V-J day came on the day the new Labor-dominated Parliament opened. In one burst Britons were hailing victory, the Crown and Socialism...
...door Prime Minister Clement Attlee paused to chat with his good friend, the ex-Prime Minister. The day before, the King had asked Churchill to greet the cheering crowds with him from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Churchill declined; since he was not in office, it would be unconstitutional. When Prime Minister Attlee heard of it, he also declined the honor which, he said, was rightfully Churchill...
Queen Elizabeth had a ringing week. It began when Metropolitan Opera Star Marjorie Lawrence sang for her at Buckingham Palace and Princess Elizabeth's dog Crackers (a Corgi) barked during a Carmen aria (excitement, explained the Queen). Then the bells of St. Paul's paid tribute, for the first time since the start of the war, to the Queen's birthday (her 45th...