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...Nobody need wait who don't know what 'e's waitin' for. Step along now. Step along." All around him the milling crowd grinned self-consciously and held its ground. For a week or more, curious and sentimental Londoners had gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to gaze curiously at a third-floor window, wait aimlessly for a while, drift away and return again to renew the vigil...
...weeks, Buckingham Palace had been made ready for the event. In an improvised but immaculate delivery room on the second floor, hospital equipment rented from a local supply house stood scrubbed and sterilized. Each day the healthy young expectant mother had been given a going-over by beetle-browed Obstetrician Sir William Gilliatt...
Born. To Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, 22, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 27: their first child, a son; in Buckingham Palace, London. Weight:, 7 Ibs. 6 oz. Name: unannounced...
Last week, as the birth of Princess Elizabeth's baby drew near, the old custom was smacked down before it even had a chance to raise its head. "The attendance of a minister of the crown at a birth in the royal family," said Buckingham Palace in a succinct announcement, "is not a statutory requirement ... It is merely the survival of an archaic custom, and the King feels it is unnecessary to continue [the] practice...
When the great day came Princess Elizabeth, expecting her child in mid-November, stayed behind at Buckingham Palace. She was looking out of a window when the Irish State Coach (built for Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin) left the palace gate. Londoners packed along the procession route stopped blowing their noses and forgot the biting October wind. A rustling murmur went up: "Here they come...