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...specter of divorce again loomed in the shadow of Buckingham Palace when Australian-born Lieut. Commander Michael Parker, 36, wartime sidekick of Prince Philip and his former private secretary, was sued by his wife on grounds of adultery. Party-loving Mike Parker resigned his palace job last February, a few hours after word leaked of the Parkers' separation...
...London, the Daily Sketch reported that Princess Margaret would marry a faithful escort and bachelor-in-waiting, Billy Wallace, British-born stepson of U.S. Author Herbert Agar and heir to an iron-and-coal fortune. But Billy and Buckingham Palace denied the report. Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, a faithful escort of yesteryear, R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped...
...Dorchester. The harsh accents of Sydney and Melbourne bounced almost unnoticed off the walls of pubs. Scots sextons helped citizens of Canada and the U.S. track down ancestors in their own quiet graveyards, while hairy German legs bristled stoutly beneath their Lederhosen at the changing of the guard at Buckingham or St. James's Palace. Headwaiters were busy guiding visiting Frenchmen through the mysteries of an English menu -which in virtually every good London restaurant is printed in what is presumed to be French...
Further cementing her bond with the people, Scots-descended Queen Elizabeth scanned the royal phone bill (estimate: $70,000 a year), reached a housewifely conclusion: too high. Her solution: install pay phones in Buckingham Palace...
...presented to Victoria, Queen not only of England but of everything that Louise Mackay most admired. In Author Berlin's simple account of that occasion, two symbols can be glimpsed: the Kohinoor diamond on the Queen's breast and the Comstock Lode that had carried Louise to Buckingham Palace. The fabulous diamond and the fabulous silver mine, the power of empire and the American frontier thus met; they could scarcely be expected to understand each other, but their meeting nonetheless seemed to have about it a touch of destiny, even of continuity...