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...social ravens who uttered these prophecies recalled that, upon the death of King Edward, Alexandra had been with difficulty persuaded to abandon Buckingham Palace. She clung with all the force of an indomitable will to the style and title of "Queen" (TIME, Nov. 30), and by way of "compromise" at length possessed herself of Marlborough House, where she had resided as Princess of Wales. The present Prince of Wales, gossips opined, might "like it or lump...
...Lect. Hall English 33 Emerson J French 6 Memorial Hall TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (VIII) Chemistry 10 Harvard 5 Chemistry 18 Harvard 2 Class. Philol. 55 Harvard 2 English 4 Harvard 2 English 45 Emerson J German A Prof. Bierwirth, 10, 14 Memorial Hsall Mr. Bennett, 11 Memorial Hall Mr. Buckingham, 13, 18 Memorial Hall Mr. Evans, 7, 22 Memorial Hall Mr. Geurkink, 2, 6 Memorial Hall Dr. Heffner, 1, 21, 23 New Lect. Hall Dr. Herrick, 5, 12, 16 New Lect. Hall Mr. Pfund, 20 New Lect. Hall Mr. Provine, 4, 15 New Lect. Hall Dr. Silz...
Later the genial Winston did his colleague Sir Austen the favor to "loan" him "No. 11 Downing,"** at which Sir Austen and Lady Cham- berlain proceeded to entertain the plenipotent signatories. A tea was likewise given to the delegates by the King and Queen at Buckingham. Elaborate festivities had originally been planned, but had to be abandoned on account of the Queen Mother's death...
...modest Imperator et Rex, felt stirring within him that urge toward pheasant shooting which in his youth caused him to become one of the crack bird-shots of the Empire. While the Prince of Wales spurred madly after foxes and Queen Mary occupied herself with vague housewifely duties at Buckingham Palace, King George set out for his annual visit to Elveden Hall in Suffolk, where some of the finest pheasant and partridge shooting in England...
...motor sped ahead of them to Curzon House, Curzon Street, Mayfair. As the brawny packers unpacked, she gazed approvingly about her at the comfortable Georgian spaciousness of her new winter home. Court gossips have it that she and the Duke found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...