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...royalty is discouraged from marrying Roman Catholics. Also complicating matters is the fact that intermarriage has linked so many of Europe's royal houses. Questioned about a romance with a young prince, one Oxford-educated continental princess snapped: "Come off it. He's my first cousin...
...shop. Got it in one, eh? Yes, and now Cardullo's is closed (not that Aunt Edna liked those sticky Smyrna figs you palmed off on her last year, anyway), and Uncle Jack is much too busy at Leavitt and Peirce's to attend to your simple needs (Cousin Thelma wasn't at ali pleased with those personalized kitchen matches, you will remember). What, then, is to be done? Well, how about a record for once? We've heard 'em all, and if you'll sit very still, and promise not to fidget, we'll tell you what you want...
Even more pure and lovely, if possible are the voices of the Choristers of King's College, Cambridge, whose annual Christmas Eve service, A Festival of Lessons and Carols, London has also recorded (London 5523). This is the record our own Aunt Edna and Cousin Thelma will get, if we can bear to part with a single copy of it. The simple and elegant service (the lessons are read by a chorister, a choral scholar, three fellows, the dean, and the provost) and the remarkable and memorable carols (such as "Once in Royal David's City" and "Adam...
Never in Public. His name was Harry Gerguson alias Arthur Wellesley alias Count Gladstone alias Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, cousin and occasionally half brother of Nicholas II, last Czar of all the Russias. After preparing at Eton, he had been to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Heidelberg, Oxford and Cambridge. Since, in fact, he was born in the New York area of indeterminate parentage, he always refused to speak Russian in public. But he was scrupulously elegant, with a camel's hair accent and a mill-racing brain. He lived on both coasts of North America and made occasional...
...Hong Kong, where his official regimental duty is second-in-command of Squadron C of the Royal Scots Greys, the Duke of Kent, a captain at 27, picked up another job: Officer in Charge of Go-Karts. But the duke, a cousin...