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Winding up their 57-day trek (of 14,450 miles) about Australia, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh drove out into the countryside from the bustling city of Perth and ate a leisurely picnic lunch. Two days later, leaving in her wake the cacophonous cheers and steam whistles, the Gothic hove westward across the Indian Ocean, bound for the Cocos Islands and Ceylon...
Today, still housed in its pillared mansion just off the Strand, the society is run by a council of 40 scholars and celebrities under the presidency of the Duke of Edinburgh and the chairmanship...
...been written by a jaundiced remittance man who had spent his money from home on an inglorious lost weekend and was suffering . . . Sydney's welcome was admittedly noisy and uninhibited, but the spirit of the welcome was a gay and happy greeting . . . The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh may have found our welcome tiring but not tiresome, as you pointedly suggest. Doubtless, there were far too many official functions and politicians and too much heat, but we are not quite the unmannered, uncouth colonials your article implies . . . Your presidential parades and important civic affairs are not conducted with...
...Australia the Duke of Edinburgh became the butt of some friendly hazing when he dropped in for a look at Melbourne University. As he stepped from his car, an honor guard of students, bearing mops and dressed as Eastern potentates, rolled out a moth-eaten carpet...
...gentler circumstances-as a brilliant, somewhat slack-jawed mother's boy named John Donald Merrett. His doting mother, whose less doting husband had skipped out of the family circle, sent him to a fine public school, and went herself to Scotland to tend his needs when he entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager bank account of some ?450, most of which he spent on a local music-hall...