Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them.' "As I was leaving I told him how, on the previous day when I [visited] the Salon d'Automne, I saw two lorry-loads of gendarmes arrive to effect the changing of the guard in the Picasso room. He laughed: 'Just like Buckingham Palace, isn't it?' he said delightedly...
...When Hoffmann was taking the real Hitler's picture in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940, the Fiihrer reportedly cracked: "Take this one, Hoffmann; then the next one in Buckingham Palace and the next in front of the skyscrapers...
...felt it. He was at his desk in the Vatican when word came. Britain's King George felt it. He and Queen Elizabeth, remembering a past picnic at Hyde Park, had been looking forward to a visit soon from Franklin Roosevelt and to putting him up at Buckingham Palace. Now their Court Circular, for the first time in history, recorded the death of a foreign chief of state...
That night, a gilt-edged statement was issued from Buckingham Palace: "The King has been pleased to nominate the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Geoffrey Francis Fisher, D.D., Lord Bishop of London, for election by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury in place of the late Right Honourable and Most Reverend William Temple, D.D., Lit. D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan...
Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days...