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...Mother," old Mts. Ruskin assured her son, "than the mother of the greatest of Kings or Heroes past or present." "They have got him now," said Painter Millais (who married Effie a year later) , "and will keep on either side of him like the two outside horses in the Edinburgh omnibuses, who always suggested . . . that they were taking [the middle horse] to the station-house-let us hope that this may not be realized in the case of poor...
...Philip Mountbatten [Duke of Edinburgh], who rose from almost obscurity during 1947 to become the husband of the future Queen of England...
...Home in Canada after six months journeying in Britain and Europe by car, I want to thank TIME for being in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Paris, the Riviera, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam - keeping us informed not only of the events we were seeing but also of what was happening in the rest of the world where we weren...
Househunters huffed loudly when Philip and Elizabeth were given huge Clarence House, once the London home of Queen Victoria's "sailor son," the Duke of Edinburgh, as an extra residence. Rationed housewives snorted at news stories of visiting royalty wining & dining at public expense. But for many another Londoner, the wedding was a happy excuse to forget personal hardships, to sentimentalize and enjoy again the elaborate and almost forgotten pageantry of royalty on display. "Why, I can feel myself getting excited already," said a City office girl a week before the event...
Meanwhile, at several London stores, knowing purchasers of wedding gifts for Elizabeth had asked to have them monogrammed "E.E." Knowledgeable gossips immediately concluded that the Royal Family had decided on Edinburgh as a suitable dukedom for their son-in-law. More excitable gossips were aghast at a story that Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., had ordered from a Hollywood firm six pairs of Nylon stockings with clocks of seed pearls as his present to the Princess. In Washington the pained British Embassy promptly scotched that story...