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...first flurry of tongues was all about Lieut. Commander Michael Parker, wartime shipmate, good friend and private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh. Last week a London newspaper reported what palace officials had known for six months -that Mike and his wife were separating. Gossipists were prompt to link Parker's name (without foundation) to that of another woman, and the news was duly radioed to the royal yacht Britannia, on which both the Duke and Parker were approaching Gibraltar at the end of a four-month, globe-girdling tour of the Commonwealth. Soon afterward the palace announced that...
...recognize the gossip about the royal couple themselves, in which Mike was involved at about the third-paragraph level. Out of London one day clacked a dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Mayfair Set Correspondent Joan Graham, reporting that Britons were troubled by whispers "that the Duke of Edinburgh had more than a passing interest in an unnamed woman and was meeting her regularly in the apartment of the court photographer." By London's teatime the Sun's sensational story was splashed across U.S. newspaper front pages: REPORT QUEEN, DUKE IN RIFT OVER PARTY GIRL...
...while, it seemed as if the education of Prince Charles might follow the same pattern. In the schoolroom at Buckingham Palace, Governess Katherine Peebles taught him his three R's, gave him his first lessons in French, history, geography and the Bible. But the Duke of Edinburgh was determined that his son must "learn to mix with other kids." Partly because of its obscurity, the Hill House School was the one he and the Queen chose...
...Scotland's Baptist Union, assembling at Edinburgh, was debating a motion to raise the yearly minimum wage ($1,036 plus a house) of its ministers when a sturdy dockworker rose, announced that his salary was $3,360, and made a strong plea for the underpaid clergy. "That is well said," replied the Rev. John McBeath, assembly president, "but let me remind you that you canna tak the breeks off a Hielan' mon!" Nonetheless, the assembly voted a $140 increase...
Warhead. In Edinburgh, Scotland, arrested for illegal possession of explosives, John Hay Barbour clinched the case against himself when officers watched him doff his hat as he entered the police station, saw a detonator and four sticks of dynamite fall...