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...annual Christmas dance for the servants at Buckingham Palace got under way when the orchestra struck up Night and Day and King George VI led Household Maid Isabel Ross in the first foxtrot of the evening. Then, instead of leaving after his usual one duty dance, His Majesty enjoyed two more rounds while Queen Elizabeth, in gold-tinted crinoline and a diamond tiara, danced with her deputy steward and a page...
That stimulated other scholars, and soon they were turning up new and startling additional information about Kittredge's Sir Thomas. It appeared that Sir Thomas had been a prodigious troublemaker in his day, had tried to ambush the Duke of Buckingham, had broken into the home of one Hugh Smyth and raped his wife Joan, had extorted 100s, from a Margaret Kyng and a William Hales and 20s. from a John Mylner, had broken into Hugh Smyth's place and raped Joan again, had gone to Leicestershire and there stolen "seven cows, two calves, a cart worth...
...clever parliamentary maneuvering, Wyatt and a few other discontented Labor M.P.s arranged that the arms-for-Egypt issue should be debated at a night meeting of the House which Bevin could not attend. (Together with Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, Bevin was off to a state dinner at Buckingham Palace in honor of Queen Juliana of The Netherlands.) Before the debate began, Wyatt and several supporters headed for the office of Under Secretary of State Ernest Davies, who was scheduled to represent Bevin at the meeting. The rebel Laborites warned Davies that "the Foreign Secretary should not strain the loyalty...
...Sherwood's three goals led the Mill Street field hockey team to a 4 to 0 win over Wheelock College in the fall finale at Buckingham Park yesterday. Nick Arundel scored the fourth goal...
...Institute a going concern. A new car for Princess Elizabeth arrived, a dark green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with radio, air conditioning unit and make-up compartment. Up from Malta came father Philip to join the family in the white-and-gold music room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York christened Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, who looked...