Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, who have been living with their in-laws at Buckingham Palace since their marriage, finally moved into a home of their own: 124-year-old Clarence House; still being given $200,000 worth of decorations and repairs for wartime bomb damage...
Alumnae trustees named for the same span of office include Dr. Marian C. Putnam, lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard, MIT, and Boston University, and co-director of the James Jackson Putnam Children's Center; and Miss Marian W. Vaillant, principal of the Buckingham School in Cambridge...
...since 1939. Footguardsmen of the Welsh Guards donned scarlet tunics and towering bearskins, to stand at rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback, drove over from Buckingham Palace in an open carriage, closely followed by the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Elizabeth, sidesaddle on her chestnut gelding Winston...
Back home in Buckingham Palace last week, Princess Margaret found her desk piled high with invitations. London's fourth society season since the war was just rounding into the straightaway and there was,a heady catalogue of entertainments in the offing: a huge ball for the twin daughters of Lady Alexandra and Major E. D. ("Fruity") Metcalfe, a rout at the Guards' Boat Club, the Cygnettes Ball and a round of parties encompassing Royal Ascot Week. It was a list to make a shopgirl's head spin. But for a princess it meant mostly that her holiday...
...they were doing. While Elizabeth fondled her ponies and puppies, Margaret made pets of a salamander and a speckled toad. When Elizabeth won a certificate for lifesaving, Margaret had her day: she heaved her sister's pet Corgi into the pond on the day of a Buckingham Palace garden party and dived in after him, triumphant and heroic in her best party dress...