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...Britain's monarchy bring itself democratically up to date, and the outraged ranks of the old guard on the other demanding that the Queen's critics be drawn and quartered, it has long been obvious that something must give. Last week, a terse, two-sentence announcement from Buckingham Palace tolled the knell of doom for the first innocent victims of the battle-the 800-odd young maidens who each year are ritually presented to the Queen and thereby officially emerge into the best society as debutantes...
...There will be no presentation parties after 1958," said the palace bulletin that put the signature on their death warrant. "The Queen proposes to hold additional garden parties in order that larger numbers may be invited to Buckingham Palace." "A deb," said Palace Press Secretary Richard Colville, by way of fuller explanation, "can no longer apply to meet the Queen. There is no one she can apply to. In fact, there will be no debs. They are finished...
...Relations"). The Satevepost (that "notoriously conformist family magazine," pouted London's New Statesman) stirred up a stew in the British press, notably for its author, former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge, who got the assignment long before the Queen's visit was planned. He described the inhabitants of Buckingham Palace as characters in "a royal soap opera," urged that the institution be refurbished to keep up with changing times. This "shocking attack," as London's Sunday Express called it, prompted the BBC to schedule, then cancel, an appearance by Muggeridge, who is a TV favorite; threw some doubt...
...Queen, he has literally brought the world to his wife's door, and opened that door wide on the world itself. Artists, writers, businessmen and even trade unionists who would have been shown the back door in Queen Victoria's day now lunch regularly at Buckingham Palace...
...line of spectators, he noticed a young girl pretending to swoon as he passed. Philip grinned at her: "Steady, now." On another occasion, a young matron took a look at him and murmured: "Mmmmm." Philip heard her, looked her up and down, and said: "MMMMMMmmm." He may examine a Buckingham Palace menu in elaborate French, remark cheerily to the guests: "Ah, good. Fish and chips again...