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...story was old as Grimm and as new as television. It all began when 22-year-old Princess Margaretha, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf, went to London last fall to brush up her English. The princess did not stay with her distant relatives at Buckingham Palace, but boarded at $14 a week with the family of an old friend in Hampstead. She took an unpaid training job as a therapist in a London hospital, traveled to and from work on the underground. Mayfair, which had seen its share of foreign princesses, liked but was not dazzled...
...specially equipped operating room at Buckingham Palace, Prince Charles, 8. had his tonsils and adenoids...
...envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring...
...They are extremely happy," said Cmdr Richard Colville, Buckingham Palace press officer, who is accompanying the royal couple. "They are in great form...
...household in the world is more subject to the hot breath of gossip than Britain's House of Windsor. Last week the mongering winds were howling louder around Buckingham Palace than they had since the day of Wallis Warfield Simpson and Edward VIII...