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...bore the King's coffin. Behind them, in the bright red and gilt state coach, rode the bereaved women, dim, veiled, scarcely visible: Britain's young Queen, her mother, her sister Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal. Behind them, walking four abreast, came the Royal Dukes: Edinburgh, the Queen's husband; Gloucester, the King's younger brother; Windsor, who had once been King himself; and Kent, his 16-year-old nephew...
Unlike his three-year-old son Prince Charles, who on his mother's accession automatically became Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Grand Steward of Scotland, the Duke of Edinburgh has no change in titular status: he is still simply the Queen's husband. It is an awkward and difficult position. His last predecessor was Victoria's German-speaking husband, and Britons took a long time getting used to Albert. Philip, born in Corfu and once sixth in line for the Greek throne, is a great...
Exactly 19 hours and one minute after Britain's King, Queen and Winston Churchill waved farewells at London airport, the British Overseas airliner Atlanta touched down and the British Empire's favorite emissaries, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, began the first leg of a five-month, 30,000-mile tour that will take them to Ceylon, New Zealand and Australia...
Dressed in the grey habit of the Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, a charitable order she helped found in Athens several years ago, Princess Alice of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, arrived in Manhattan for her third cross-country fund-raising tour. The $10,000 raised two years ago, she said, was used to buy a home for the order, which cares for the poor and the sick. "I am very hopeful this time that I can get enough money to enlarge our plant so that I will not have to come back...
Professor Arnold P. Meiklejohn of Edinburgh University spent last summer in the U.S. studying medical teaching and research, and casting a diagnostic eye over the general U.S. scene. On the whole, he was agreeably surprised. Reports Dr. Meiklejohn in the British journal, Lancet...