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...Buckingham Palace, he was delighted at the way Queen Victoria sang his songs ". . . beautifully in tune . . . and with very nice expression. Only where ... it goes down to D and then comes up again . . . she sang D-sharp each time; and because the first two times I gave her the note, the last time, sure enough, she sang D-where it ought to have been D-sharp. But except for this ... it was really charming...
...emphatic refusal to continue in his Coalition Government until the Japanese war was won (TIME, May 28), Prime Minister Winston Churchill moved decisively. First he canceled the fortnight's holiday he had planned in the south of France. Then, twice in a single day, he drove formally to Buckingham Palace-at noon to resign, four hours later to accept King George VI's invitation to form a new government...
...them.' "As I was leaving I told him how, on the previous day when I [visited] the Salon d'Automne, I saw two lorry-loads of gendarmes arrive to effect the changing of the guard in the Picasso room. He laughed: 'Just like Buckingham Palace, isn't it?' he said delightedly...
...When Hoffmann was taking the real Hitler's picture in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940, the Fiihrer reportedly cracked: "Take this one, Hoffmann; then the next one in Buckingham Palace and the next in front of the skyscrapers...
...felt it. He was at his desk in the Vatican when word came. Britain's King George felt it. He and Queen Elizabeth, remembering a past picnic at Hyde Park, had been looking forward to a visit soon from Franklin Roosevelt and to putting him up at Buckingham Palace. Now their Court Circular, for the first time in history, recorded the death of a foreign chief of state...