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...Trees, Six Parliaments. This week Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and a party of ten royal attendants set forth* on a 30,000-mile trip through her Commonwealth. It will be no mere royal joy ride. It will be the Queen's job to reestablish cordial acquaintance with countless thousands of her subjects all over the world. She will be required to preside graciously at half a hundred state balls, garden parties, luncheons and banquets, at eleven investitures, 133 receptions and 27 children's displays. She will open six Parliaments, lay seven wreaths, unveil three memorials, plant...
...costly ($1,700,000 a year) and too undemocratic. A Socialist scolded the Queen for maintaining a private enclosure for the horse races at Ascot; a Methodist minister scolded her for going to races at all ("They are full of racketeers"). The same outraged Methodist berated the Duke of Edinburgh for playing polo on Sunday, while the leftists howled that he took too much interest in politics. (In a speech at Edinburgh, Philip had cautiously praised compulsory military service as "character building...
...Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas. An outstanding film script in spired by the notorious case of the 19th century Edinburgh body snatchers, Burke and Hare (TIME...
...Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas. An outstanding film script inspired by the notorious case of the 19th century Edinburgh body snatchers, Burke and Hare, and the anatomist they worked for (TIME...
...Duke of Edinburgh's brother...