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London weather should be nice. Last week Bertie's real birthday was celebrated in Buckingham Palace. The King was 42 and to the party came 90 British children to romp with His Majesty's daughters. Princess Elizabeth & Princess Margaret Rose. There were tea & cakes in the Royal Picture Gallery and a performance by the Scottish Children's Theatre-which consists of six coy adults who recite Mother Goose rhymes in costume. No. 1 guest moppet was H. R. H. Prince Edward, two-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and 5th in line...
...King George is the direct personal representative of His Majesty, the appointing of an Irish Free State minister at Rome accredited to "Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia" had to be done by George VI. Mr. de Valera therefore posted a letter direct to Buckingham Palace, advised His Majesty to take the necessary action, enclosed the official papers for him to sign...
Died. Kate Sturges Buckingham, 79, Chicago art patron, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Chicago. Of Miss Buckingham's numerous gifts to Chicago, most spectacular was $1,000,000 she gave in 1927 for the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain in Grant Park, which she endowed...
Later, with King George out of town on a shooting trip last week, the Queen's Standard was flown at Buckingham Palace for the first time, showing that Her Majesty was alone in residence. Proud Scots passing by noted that the Queen's Standard incorporates the Scottish arms of Bowes-Lyon with the standards of England, Ireland and Scotland...
With her own hand, according to London dispatches last week, Queen Elizabeth adjusted the towels in a guest bathroom at Buckingham Palace and placed there a fresh cake of soap bearing the British royal arms. This was for the use of King Leopold III of the Belgians, whose state visit went off in glittering, uneventful style as scheduled (TIME, Nov. 22). At the last moment before the state ball there was substituted for the Royal Artillery Band, which even courtiers have called "lousy," swank Marshall's Orchestra. For the first time at Buckingham Palace the crowned heads danced...