Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Celebrating their new status as householders (they just moved into their very own Clarence House), Britain's matronly Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as a farmer. His wife hid her gentle features behind a horse's mask to appear as The Old Grey Mare. Their daughter, honey-haired Sharman, came as A Portrait of a Lady; she carried around a huge picture frame, finally abandoned it in a corner...
...sensation of the evening was Elizabeth's mischievous sister Margaret. She started off as Madame Butterfly, changed costumes to become "Mademoiselle Fifi," the belle of the boulevards. "It's a good thing," said one of the guests later, "that Queen Victoria wasn't there...
Greta Garbo, off to Europe where she will seriously consider making her first movie in eight years (Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais), made a standard Garbo exit. Dressed in black and hidden under a large mushroom-shaped hat, she slipped aboard the Queen Elizabeth, ahead of the crowds, eluded reporters by having the stewardess tell them that Miss Garbo had not yet come aboard...
...Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, who have been living with their in-laws at Buckingham Palace since their marriage, finally moved into a home of their own: 124-year-old Clarence House; still being given $200,000 worth of decorations and repairs for wartime bomb damage...
Born. To Burt Lancaster, 35, cinema hard guy (The Killers, Brute Force), and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 32: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Elizabeth. Weight...