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Many women have been accustomed to prolong the ecstasy of their genuflection at Buckingham Palace by performing an elaborate, graceful curtsy with what is known in professional British Court circles as "the minuet effect." This...
...Prime Minister's purring Daimler slid into Whitehall, then turned for Buckingham Palace, Mr. MacDonald could scarcely have failed to recall his short, fateful ride to the same destination in 1931. The King, on his own initiative, had rushed down from the royal country seat in Scotland, and it was His Majesty's pleasure that Laborite MacDonald should break with his Labor friends-the men who had raised him from a $3.25 per week clerk to be Prime Minister-and form a so-called "National Government." That master stroke has given Britain a Cabinet Conservative in fact which...
...more. Driving away down the Mall, he passed Stanley Baldwin driving toward the Palace, and silk hat was gravely raised to silk hat. Mr. Baldwin, seated far back in the depths of his Daimler, was unnoticed by passers-by until he alighted to step on the red carpet of Buckingham Palace. In a hurry, he kissed hands and became Prime Minister about four minutes after Mr. MacDonald ceased to hold that office...
...Moscow every potent Bolshevik from Joseph Stalin down feted Dr. Benes who is also a favorite of King George, often dining at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Benes, champion of the League of Nations, has long been first in peace, now seems likely to be first in war as a Skoda supersalesman, remains first in the hearts of Czechoslovaks along with his venerable friend and patron, permanent President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
...wisdom of George V in deciding not to use his solid gold dinner service at the three State Jubilee Banquets in Buckingham Palace (TIME, April 22) was further manifest last week when guests of Their Majesties were revealed to have departed with solid silver pepper pots, knives and spoons and a solid silver dinner plate worth...