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...royal face, small, round and rosy, peeped from a window in the stern facade of Buckingham Palace one morning last week. Out the palace gate was clattering a coach of gilt and glass. Above it the three golden genii of England, Scotland and Ireland supported replicas of the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword of State and the emblems of knighthood. Within the coach rode awfully the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress...
...Queen-Empress there have been born no children for 21 years.* Yet as Her Majesty re- tired at Buckingham Palace one evening last week, she was pleasantly conscious that a room adjoining her bedchamber sheltered an infant princess. Her Majesty and the rest of the royal family had partaken of an unusually frugal meal. No soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served...
...George V: "I was late to dinner at Buckingham Palace one night last week. Motoring home from a day's shooting in Berkshire (at the home of Lady Ward, onetime Miss Jean Whitelaw Reid of Manhattan), my chauffeur ran into a dense fog bank on the Great West Road. He tried to make a detour, but floundered hopelessly in the murk and I had to exercise patience while he groped along the grass edge of the road...
...Presbyterian divine who had held many offices under the Commonwealth, notably being chaplain General Monk. After graduating from Trinity College. Cambridge, he came to London under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, with the intention of earning a living as an actor. But though, it is said, he was a fine reader, his seemingly incurable stage fright made an actor's career out of the question...
...remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such different tastes as George of Buckingham and Windsor and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth get together--even over a telephone. But as it is there will probably he no trouble: central will, as usual, probably oblige with the wrong number...