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...short while later, Heath, looking tired and drawn, drove to Buckingham Palace and tendered his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. Six minutes later, at 7:18 p.m., Harold Wilson arrived and, according to the palace bulletin, "accepted Her Majesty's offer" to form a new government. By the time the Wilsons arrived at Downing Street, Heath had packed his bachelor bags and gone to spend the night in a borrowed flat...
...prime ministership -to William Whitelaw, his Employment Secretary and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The theory was that the popular Whitelaw might be a more acceptable choice to hold the Tories in power than Heath. Finally, just before 8 p.m., Heath made the short journey to Buckingham Palace, where he informed the Queen that he intended to explore ways of carrying on his administration...
...together presumably last year when she attended a convent school near Windsor Castle. The problems were even more alluring. As head of the Church of England, Charles can only marry an Anglican. Would he renounce his throne for Roman Catholic Caroline? Or would she be converted? The answer from Buckingham Palace and Monaco's royal palace was unanimous: No. In fact, Charles, now on naval duty in the Far East, and Caroline, a student at a Paris convent school, have never met. -:Admirers of the 1930s movie Ecstasy liked the unadorned way Hedy Lamarr took to the water...
...planning tea parties and lunches around the telly. Limousines were parked in front of smart stores throughout London's West End, while their owners shopped for silver trays and crystal decanters. Throughout the kingdom, pensioners were wrapping handmade doilies and dainty little handkerchiefs monogrammed "A" and "M." At Buckingham Palace a special office was set up to inspect and display the vast piles of gifts. The occasion: this week's wedding in Westminster Abbey of Princess Anne, 23, and Captain Mark Phillips, 25, of the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards, the son of a wealthy and socially...
...wedding may well be the last time the spotlight shines on Anne. Fearful of her sometimes quite visible boredom at official ceremonies, Buckingham Palace has seemingly given up on her as a royal standardbearer, just as it has on Princess Margaret...