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...while, it seemed as if the education of Prince Charles might follow the same pattern. In the schoolroom at Buckingham Palace, Governess Katherine Peebles taught him his three R's, gave him his first lessons in French, history, geography and the Bible. But the Duke of Edinburgh was determined that his son must "learn to mix with other kids." Partly because of its obscurity, the Hill House School was the one he and the Queen chose...
...tired, sick, dispirited man emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden's black Humber rolled through London's darkened back streets, flashing headlights to warn police of its approach. It stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying...
...Edens, returning by train, reached 10 Downing Street at 2 p.m. The Queen followed by car, arrived at Buckingham Palace at 5:20 p.m. Twenty minutes before. Eden had confronted his hurriedly assembled Cabinet ministers. Briefly and curtly, toying with a pencil in his fluttering fingers. Sir Anthony explained that his doctors declared his health was giving them cause for concern. There were very difficult times ahead, and he felt it his duty to say forthwith that his health was not good enough to sustain him through these tasks. The formal visit to Buckingham Palace followed...
...morning long, Butler and Macmillan worked at their desks as usual, each waiting for the fateful phone call summoning him to Buckingham Palace. At 1:30 widower Butler went home to a lonely lunch. A few moments later the phone rang in 11 Downing Street, official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Macmillan rushed off to "kiss hands upon his appointment...
...most menacing army by showing that its colonial conscripts could no longer be relied upon. The Kremlin's current irresolution owes much to him. So does Communism's great loss of prestige around the world. Bulganin and Khrushchev, because of him, could not now expect to be received at Buckingham Palace or make the same kind of laughing-boy junket through Asia, and all over Western Europe, disillusioned Communist sympathizers turned away in nausea. Destroyed also was the 1984 fantasy that a whole generation could be taught to believe that wrong was right, or could be emptied of all integrity...