Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cousin. Lieut. Mountbatten had not always seemed so important to his royal cousin. When Elizabeth first met him at a Palace luncheon given by her grandparents, she was six. Reports say that she was not visibly moved. In later years there were many other casual meetings. But his older relatives seemed to find Philip more interesting than Elizabeth did. King George and Philip had long chats about the Navy. At Queen Mary's wartime home at Badminton House, the Queen Mother and her young cousin would spend hours lopping off branches to drag home for fuel...
...vain for signs of them in Mayfair and the West End. Horrid rumors that the whole affair was off circulated among Britain's matchmakers. To see his girl at all, Philip had to slip secretly through a side door of the Palace or arrange clandestine rendezvous through his cousin, the Duchess of Kent. Then, last week, after sounding out his Government and his Dominion Ministers, King George inserted a notice in the Court Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure," it ran, "that the King and Queen announce the betrothal of their beloved daughter the Princess Elizabeth to Lieut...
Lady Iris Mountbatten, 27, pretty great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin to George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
...Manhattan, ex-Prince Carl Johan of Sweden, Windsor's second cousin, who also married a commoner (and relinquished his rights of succession), had a distressing set-to with his landlady. He sued to break his lease on his duplex apartment ($666.67 a month) which, the ex-Prince declared, not only "presented a somber, ungainly and disordered aspect," but also had rats. He suggested that $300 a month was quite enough. "I'm not being libelous and I'm not being rude," the landlady explained, as she reported that she had decorated the place "in a manner...
...with a baronial New Year's reception at the office. It is a command performance: his employees file past their morning-coated boss (a police dog mounts guard at his side), shake his hand, then pass on to the cigars and the punch bowl. Watching the show, his cousin, the late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, once drily observed: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...