Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filed, lost its lovely staircase. John Nash's nobly curving Regent Street was ripped by a time bomb. A German squadron boasted it had toasted victory in champagne in the sky, and then dropped the empty bottles on the palace which was bought from the Duke of Buckingham by one of Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house in Chiswick where William Hogarth retired during the summers to draw. So was the Gothic...
...office, an admiral's uniform for a cruise on his splendid white yacht, once the property of Oilman Edward Doheny. It is a legend in Manila that he planned to have a guard of honor for the Malacanan dressed in uniforms copied after those worn at Buckingham Palace, dropped the idea only after earnest advice from friends. He is the adored father of two grown-up daughters. Maria Aurora ("Baby") and Zenaida ("Mini"), and a small son. Manuel Jr. ("Nonong"). Mrs. Quezon, dignified and portly, keeps matron...
...London King George VI installed a new rowing machine at Buckingham Palace (to make up for the exercise he ordinarily gets at this time of the year shooting grouse), was undismayed at bombing raids that knocked John Milton's statue off its plinth at St. Giles...
...returned to Washington with clothes she had bought in Paris, would encourage impecunious Wallis to have them copied for herself by a seamstress. Today, although the Duchess of Windsor spends thousands on her clothes, her old portable sewing machine is still taken along from thrifty force of habit. At Buckingham Palace, she as Mrs. Simpson induced King Edward to make drastic housekeeping economies, and at Government House in Nassau last week the staff expected to be held on a tight rein...
Christened. Princess Irene Emma Elizabeth, youngest (ten months) daughter of The Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld; before a distinguished audience of British and Netherlands royalty, including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (godmother) ; in Buckingham Palace, London...