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General Joseph T. McNarney was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Bath by George VI at Buckingham Palace...
...Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Marlborough House some 200 of George's 235 footmen, valets, cooks and pages joined the Civil Servants Union en masse. They demanded better pay, a cost-of-living bonus and equal status with other government employes. The Government, responsible for paying the King's help, promptly offered a 30-shilling increase, but the servants turned it down flat. Their bargaining position is strong-for months now toothy Lieut. Colonel, the Honorable Sir Piers Legh, Master of His Majesty's Household, has been scrabbling through London's employment agencies begging...
...weary as other Londoners, just peter out? One edition later, the news was: "Park Bomb Ticks Again. Squad Takes Cover." All over London, people thought of Lieut. D. H. Mellor and his men, hovering over the faint, ominous, ticktock. Would the Royal Family watch the bomb go off? Would Buckingham palace, 350 yards away, lose its windows again, as it did during the blitz...
...ladies desiring children," remarked an old chronicler), but the Church was so lukewarm toward cleanliness that, says the author, St. Agnes was canonized for flatly refusing ever to bathe at all. Hot bathwater was still considered effeminate in the early 19th Century: when Queen Victoria ascended the throne, Buckingham Palace contained not one tub, and the master of a great English college pooh-poohed a proposal to provide baths for the student body, with the words: "These young men are with us only for eight weeks at a time...
...southeast wing of the viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere Curzon and gentle Halifax. The Raj was finished: scarcely a voice in Britain spoke against independence; scarcely an Indian wanted the British to stay; scarcely a leader in India questioned the sincerity of Britain's intention...