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Princess Elizabeth, announced Buckingham Palace, would stick by the old wording in the Book of Common Prayer's marriage service. Others might now "cherish," but, future Queen or not, she would promise to "obey" her husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials...
Princess Elizabeth was assured a packed house for her wedding procession. Sold out a month in advance: all the window space in all the buildings along the route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey-three-quarters of a mile...
...basic gasoline ration was canceled last week bringing nearly a million pleasure cars to a quick stop. Britons were forbidden to travel abroad for pleasure and 30,000 vacation trips to Switzerland were promptly cancelled. At Buckingham Palace, all plans for an overseas honeymoon for Princess Elizabeth were hastily dropped...
...galoshes were ever found, but Mr. Wilter never ceased to hope. Recently he got a letter from the Queen's dresser in Buckingham Palace. "The galoshes," she wrote, "were sitting in the cupboard here in the Palace when I returned. I am sorry to have put you to all that trouble. Do forgive...
...James M. Dunning, fellow in Public Benith Dentistry, was still puzzling through his ransacked residence at 23 Buckingham St., Cambridge, yesterday, without discovering anything missing in the mess...