Word: dukedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, at several London stores, knowing purchasers of wedding gifts for Elizabeth had asked to have them monogrammed "E.E." Knowledgeable gossips immediately concluded that the Royal Family had decided on Edinburgh as a suitable dukedom for their son-in-law. More excitable gossips were aghast at a story that Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., had ordered from a Hollywood firm six pairs of Nylon stockings with clocks of seed pearls as his present to the Princess. In Washington the pained British Embassy promptly scotched that story...
...Philip. Elizabeth's own allowance (?15,000) would be upped. In time the couple would get their own town house, though they expected to start by living with the family. Unlike his great-great-grandfather, Victoria's Prince Albert, Philip would almost certainly be given a royal dukedom as well...
...been a country gentleman, a younger son reared not for the throne (that was for gay Edward), but for the ancillary quiet of a royal dukedom. A strict father, a stalwart mother and some reserve within himself gave him an air of strict propriety. A governess, tutors, a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards cultivated the necessary manners and arts. Naval schools (Osborne and Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon...
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