Word: buckinghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fill six castles and grow into the most valuable private collection in the world. From its 50 Canalettos to its 200 Da Vinci draw ings, the crown's choice is still an unnationalized treasure. The bulk, of which some 172 works are now on public view in Buckingham Palace's Queen's Gallery, bespeaks, above all, the influence of the Italian Renaissance...
...Buckingham Palace...
...describes Churchill's school days, the screen fills not with stilted Dauguerrotypes but with color shots of Harrow boys as they are today, unchanged from 75 years ago. When Churchill is summoned by the King to form a government in 1940, a Rolls-Royce drives up to Buckingham Palace in another color scene. Even though newsreel clip of the real thing. Churchill himself, as senting what eyewitnesses saw than would a scratchy staged, the scene, thanks to color, comes closer to repre-his paintings show, loved color and was intensely aware...
...Fleming had been born with everything except money. The creation of James Bond made up for that lack. It returned him an estimated million dollars a year over the past decade and permitted the luxury of a London town house just across the road from Buckingham Palace, a vast apartment by the sea at Sandwich, a Jamaican retreat called Goldeneye, and comfortable, carpeted offices just off Fleet Street...
DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Repeat of the second part of a visit to London, including Westminster Abbey, Mme. Tussaud's, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and a chat with Leslie Caron...