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...gates of Buckingham Palace will swing open one day this week for a taxi bearing a 9½-lb. tome that to many Englishmen-particularly those whose names do not figure in its 3,088 pages-seems as monumentally irrelevant to postwar Britain as the Domesday Book. To scholars, snobs, statusticians and society hostesses, nonetheless, the 103rd and fattest-ever edition of Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage is an invaluable, intriguing gazetteer to the proliferating aristocracy...
...everywhere in Britain, crowding the past, complicating the present. Along rolling Roman roads and winding country lanes, past sleeping Norman churches and whitewashed farms, weekend traffic flows like an invading army. London's raw new office buildings jostle Georgian mansions; a Hilton hotel stares impertinently down onto Buckingham Palace. Bowling alleys and dance halls are packed each night of the week. On city rooftops, TV antennas stand as thick as the English archers at Agincourt...
...Nazi Duke of Coburg made several visits during the mid-1930s to his second cousin, Britain's new King Edward VIII. Once, the royal cousins chatted "with pipe at the fireside" in Windsor Castle, another time at tea in Buckingham Palace with Mary, the Queen Mother...
...Junior Village-an overcrowded institution for children of divided or unsuitable homes, she was touchingly welcomed by 500 waifs. As Jackie entered the dining room in her bright red wool suit and mink hat-the same outfit she wore last year to Buckingham Palace-some cried, "Mommy." One child called out: "Didn't you bring us anything...
...conscience complain about that: there's entirely too much noise in almost every Shakespeare production--but it seems to be of little avail. With the exception of a few actors, like Mr. Abbott himself (who is the languid and ailing King Edward), or Andreas Teuber (a vital Buckingham, and a perfect Charlie to Pickett's Ev), or Phil Kerr (Harry Richmond), whose skills approach those of Mr. Pickett, none of Richard's enemies is much worth listening...