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...wife and No. 1 mistress; the other beauty, Iv Eng Seng, was either No. 3 wife or No. 2 mistress. To get around British sensibilities, Iv Eng Seng was listed as a governess. Whose business was it that she was also pregnant? Sam Sary called on Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace and presented his credentials...
...regal acknowledgment of British inflation, Queen Elizabeth II ordered a 6.4% pay hike for her staff of 200, the second cost-of-living increase in Buckingham Palace wages in five years...
...handsome Antarctic Explorer Vivian Fuchs arrived in London with his igman team at Waterloo Station, where he lit up a convivial pipe for photographers, who caught his wife Joyce in a mood that suggested he ought to change his tobacco. Later, "Bunny" Fuchs and his company dropped in on Buckingham Palace, where Queen Elizabeth knighted him (for leading the group on a 2,000-mile trek across the frozen continent), presented medals...
...line with Buckingham Palace's policy of treating the British royal family's private affairs as top secrets, little was known about the tenth wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip except that they observed the occasion with a small dinner party (menu undisclosed), saw a movie (title undisclosed), had a few folks in (names undisclosed) and exchanged some gifts. This was enough to give London's gossipists a field day. They variously reported that Philip gave the Queen a piece of jewelry designed by himself, a big bouquet of white carnations, a gleaming electric...
...thwarted debs, no garden party could make up their loss. Only a handful of the carefully sifted thousands who munch dainty sandwiches on the Buckingham Palace lawn get even a good view of the royalty present. The majority can only tell their children that they once walked on the same grass as the Queen and saw quite clearly the outside of the tent in which she took...