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...fiercely then to royal power. The bloody buddy-buddy with Buckingham (Richardson) decapitates the opposition, and Richard III is crowned-"but shall we wear these glories for a day?" He sends two little princes, his nephews, to a strangling bed, and sheds Buckingham as coldly as last season's skin ("None are for me/That look into me with considerate eye"). The rebellions begin, and Richard is slain at last on Bosworth Field...
...John Gielgud dilutes his Clarence with so much milk of human kindness that the observer cannot really credit him with the murder he bemoans, and so the point of his big scene is lost. Sir Ralph Richardson, too, is scarcely the strong figure that the "deep-revolving, witty Buckingham" should...
...Said Buckingham Palace: "No comment." Said the Duke of Norfolk: "All nonsense." Said an official of London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral: "I have been denying these rumors 14 times daily for the last four days. No prayers for the conversion of Princess Margaret have been offered...
After getting her due at Buckingham Palace, Britain's top Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, all smiles, curtsied and pirouetted out to display proof of her honor, the medal of a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the title conferred on her in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honors List...
...doings of his three-year-old son, Christopher Robin Milne,* who insisted on calling himself Billy Moon. As Christopher Robin, Billy eventually became a fixture in thousands of nurseries in England and the U.S. If he went to the zoo or to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, his father put it all into rhyme. Even his evening prayers ("Oh! God Bless Daddy -I quite forgot") and the tantrums of his little friends ("What is the matter with Mary Jane?") worked their way into the repertory of mothers, nannies and children on both sides of the Atlantic...