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Holding up Britain's end will be able, handsome Vice Admiral Louis Mountbatten, uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Carney will be of equal standing under Ridgway, and in time of war will "coordinate." What did the word mean? reporters asked. "Coordinate," explained NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay of Britain, "is fixing it with the other chap...
...R.A.F. base at White Waltham, the Duke of Edinburgh, after a month of training, made his first solo flight...
Divorced. By Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 44, cousin of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth: Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton of Scotland, 43, brother of the Duke of Hamilton; after 21 years of marriage, four children; in Edinburgh...
...first time since it received its charter in 1694, the Bank of England entertained a reigning sovereign at a meal within its vaulted halls on Threadneedle Street. Said Queen Elizabeth II, after she and the Duke of Edinburgh had lunched with the bank's governor: "I remember coming here as a child with my grandmother and being fascinated, as all children are, by the sight of so much gold...
...began a career of empire. New stamps bearing her likeness went on sale in Britain's post offices, and a graceful low relief of the royal head was accepted as the official design of Britain's new coinage by a royal committee headed by the Duke of Edinburgh...