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...Buckingham Palace announced that Field Marshal Sir William Slim, 61, who began his army career as an enlisted private and was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1948, will leave the War Office in November to be Governor General of Australia. Slim's successor: Sir John Harding, now commander in chief of the British Army of the Rhine...
Whether or not she had snubbed Gerry, the Queen was neither ill nor standoffish two days later when some 7,000 guests swarmed over Buckingham Palace grounds for a garden party. Peers and plain people, a Maltese Boy Scout, a Sikh naval officer, the president of the Mormon Church, a pink-trousered lady from Pakistan and a bearded artist in a bright green suit were just a few of those among whom the Queen strolled, chatting pleasantly and shaking hands at an average of once every 15 seconds. Even a downpour of rain which sent many guests scuttling into...
...London, Margaret Truman was getting the VIP tour. Highlights: a 90-minute tour of Scotland Yard, lunch with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, tea at Buckingham Palace along with some 7,000 other guests at the first garden party given by Queen Elizabeth II, dinner at the home of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., where guests enjoyed "a very subdued singsong or community hum." The trip, said Mar garet, has a two-fold purpose: to give her voice a rest and to escape from politics. Said she: "I've been to the last four conventions; I've served my time...
...Buckingham Palace announced that the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, which is actually April 21 but was officially celebrated on June 5 this year will be celebrated on Thursday June n next year, except for customs and excise offices and home ports, which will do their celebrating on Saturday, June 27 to avoid a midweek work stoppage...
...Edinburgh's Royal Company of Archers, she was presented by its captain, the Duke of Buccleuch, with the company's emblem, done up as a brooch of three golden arrows with a diamond thistle. Unable to accompany the royal entourage; the Duke of Edinburgh, laid low in Buckingham Palace by an attack of jaundice in the wake of a feverish cold...