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...returned to Washington with clothes she had bought in Paris, would encourage impecunious Wallis to have them copied for herself by a seamstress. Today, although the Duchess of Windsor spends thousands on her clothes, her old portable sewing machine is still taken along from thrifty force of habit. At Buckingham Palace, she as Mrs. Simpson induced King Edward to make drastic housekeeping economies, and at Government House in Nassau last week the staff expected to be held on a tight rein...
...field uniform at last consented to obey orders from London and embark. Accompanied only by two staff officers, General the Viscount Gort stepped into a small boat and went home in soldierly silence. Chief of Staff General Sir John Greer Dill greeted him grimly. King George called him to Buckingham Palace to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Promised Lord Gort: "We will meet them again and the next time victory will be ours...
Christened. Princess Irene Emma Elizabeth, youngest (ten months) daughter of The Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld; before a distinguished audience of British and Netherlands royalty, including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (godmother) ; in Buckingham Palace, London...
...from sparing The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina, Nazi invaders dashed straight for her capital, drove her to refuge in England. Taken to London by a British destroyer, she was met and kissed by King George, welcomed to Buckingham Palace's Belgian wing (so called because Leopold I always stayed there in Victoria...
...King and his Prime Minister did not know that Lord Tweedsmuir was going to slip in his bath and die of brain concussion (TIME, Feb. 19), but his term was about to expire and they did well to get everything forehandedly settled. Last week. Buckingham Palace officially announced that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint as Governor General of Canada Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, Knight of the Garter, Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael & St. George...