Word: buckinghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elizabeth was surprised, so were her subjects. After half an hour's conversation with Macmillan the Queen returned to Buckingham Palace, passing through a waiting crowd at the gates. A few minutes later a black Humber approached along the Mall. The man in the rear seat was a stranger; a private detective, it turned out. But the faintly smiling, aristocratically fair features of the man beside the driver were familiar enough. "It's Lord Home!" came the amazed shouts. "Astonishing!" gasped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard...
...fine Saturday morning can forget about politics, except me." Not a chance. Back came Butler to surrender. Then, at last, the hour of glory: Home's appearance on the doorstep, his smiling announcement that he was off to see the Queen, the quiet talk with Elizabeth in the Buckingham Palace audience chamber as sun softened the palace gardens and a military band played for the changing of the guard in the forecourt. Had he been able to form a government? Replied Lord Home: "Yes, I have, and I have kissed hands with the Queen on my appointment as Prime...
...older brother was already away at school near Scotland's bleak coast. Now it was time for Princess Anne, 12, to leave Buckingham Palace. She will be one of next year's "new girls" at upper-middle-class Beneden School, in Kent, 42 miles from London. She didn't have to take an exam to get in, but that was the only curtsy to royalty. Along with her 300 schoolmates, she'll be up at 7, make her own bed, take her turn setting the table and washing the dishes. And that's fine with...
That night, while the royal couples and 156 other guests dined in Buckingham Palace, 2,000 demonstrators poured into Trafalgar Square with banners proclaiming "Down with the Nazi Queen." The crowd seemed bent on storming the palace but encountered massed lines of bobbies blocking the way. Police helmets clattered across sidewalks, fists flew, traffic stalled, and prancing police horses bowled over crowds. Rioters fought off cops from atop a doubledeck bus. A few youths who made it to the Mall were stopped by flying tackles...
...were laid, most of Hilton's hotels abroad became centers of controversy, sometimes discreetly abetted by rivals. The Communists on Rome's city council battled Hilton for 2½ years before he got a permit; Londoners objected to the Hilton's height and its proximity to Buckingham Palace; Montreal's French Canadians fought for a French name for the Queen Elizabeth. Openings have often been ill-starred; Hong Kong's opening last month was marred by a water shortage, and the death of Pope John canceled elaborate plans for opening festivities in Rome...