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...George of Kent returned from Yugoslavia, London papers having it that the Duchess spent most of her time there "resting and sewing'' upon a layette. Until next spring they expect to rusticate at 40-room "Adsdean" in Sussex, loaned by Queen Victoria's Great-grandson Lord Louis Mountbatten who normally rents it for $250 per week...
...father the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry and his guests. Boomed the loud speaker: "It is with great pleasure that the King and Queen announce the betrothal of their dearly beloved son, the Duke of Gloucester, to Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, to which union the King has gladly given his consent...
McGill. As the S. S. Duchess of Richmond steamed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence one day last week, Canadian newshawks crowded around a hatch on the top deck. On the hatch cover sat Arthur Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...
...King George "like a long-lost brother" at the Royal Garden Party which closed the Silver Jubilee (TIME, Aug. 12). Mr. Morgan, who bought Genochy in County Angus four years ago for grouse shooting, was reported by terse Scots to have "acting as his hostess" Lady Elphinstone, the buxom Duchess of York's vivacious sister. Grizzled Host Morgan himself shot no grouse, strolled about the moors with the shooting Duke of York, conversed with animation. Scots reported that as usual male guests received from Mr. Morgan lengths of suiting from the native tweedery nearby...
Since small paragraphs about the Duke and Duchess of Kent had to appear, as usual,, in London society columns, the Duke was reported to be "fishing during the day" while Premier Tsaldaris conferred at the Palace with the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, and Yugoslavia's Dowager Queen Marie. Marina had the best possible excuse for not going fishing with her George. All Greece believed that she was fishing with Tsaldaris. In London the Duke was covered by Court intimations that "His Royal Highness avoided meeting Premier Tsaldaris, since His Majesty's Government would not permit such negotiations...