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Only the 77-year-old Queen Mother, warm, charming and irrepressibly vivacious, holds up the royal side. After the German bombing of Buckingham Palace, she remarks, "the garden was inundated"- her voice drops to a scandalized whisper-"with rats...
...large-spirited woman, she is notably grudging to the man who got her to Buckingham Palace-Hercule Poirot. There is little about him in the book, and what she does write is rilled with ennui and regret that she did not make him younger, handsomer, more dashing. Finally, however, she is gracious. "As life goes on, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented," she writes. "Presumably you have learned literary humility. If I could write like Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark or Graham Greene, I should jump to high heaven with delight, but I know that...
...after the bonfire, there was a regal procession from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral for a solemn thanksgiving service, followed by a lavish banquet at nearby Guildhall. By midmorning, men, women and children were standing 20 deep along the tree-lined mall that links the palace with Admiralty Arch. At 10:25 a.m., a carriage procession of members of the royal family clattered through the King's Door in the Royal Quadrangle, accompanied by a mounted escort of the Blues and Royals cavalry regiment. Princess Anne (expecting her first child in November) and her husband Captain...
...Technically, the Jubilee should have been celebrated on Feb. 6, the date on which she ascended the throne following the death of her father George VI. But Buckingham Palace decided that the country, to say nothing of tourists, would enjoy the festivities more in June than during the chill of an English winter...
...senior adviser who originally spoke with Smith took the call. Because Smith could only be reached through the post office box, the adviser did not know where to begin. He remembered Smith's friend, over at Buckingham, Brown and Nichols and gave the teacher a call. The adviser asked the teacher: "Hey, do you know how I can get a hold of that Harvard student, Joe Smith, that you drive to school each...