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With the three silver stars of a lieutenant general glittering on his shoulders, Eaker drove to Buckingham Palace, flanked by a young aide and an Air Ministry official. In an anteroom the escort stood aside while the General was ushered alone into His Majesty's study. Forty-five minutes later General Eaker emerged, possessor of one of Britain's highest military honors, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division). If Ira Eaker were a British subject he would have been invested as a knight, becoming Sir Ira; since he is as American...
Because the King was not there, it was Queen Elizabeth, in a plain grey dress prettied with orchids, who from the dais of Buckingham Palace's Grand Hall be stowed decorations on Empire heroes-first among them R.A.F. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...
...when his father died in a 1942 plane crash, watched with his sister Alexandra (see cut) a London parade of his mother's WRENS (Britannic WAVES). Sprucely dressed, the exquisite Marina's handsome elder son looked as though he had outgrown his interest in heaving pillows from Buckingham Palace balconies...
King George VI ordered Buckingham Palace's menservants out of their tail coats and white ties, into "battle dress" of less yardage, to save cloth and soap...
From the first the "future Prime Minister" was in hot water. He infuriated Conservatives, Communists and Labor alike. When Sir Stafford spoke coldly of the sacred precincts of Buckingham Palace, the London Times condemned his "indefatigable exercise of an irresponsible tongue." When he and other leftists in the Labor Party formed the Socialist League (designed to prod Labor into more radical action) he drew down the fury of the whole press...