Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rout at the Guards' Boat Club, the Cygnettes Ball and a round of parties encompassing Royal Ascot Week. It was a list to make a shopgirl's head spin. But for a princess it meant mostly that her holiday, such as it was, was over. With sister Elizabeth safely settled in matronhood, Margaret is the most eligible partygoer in Britain; it is her chore to play to the hilt the ingenue lead in an elaborate comedy of manners...
...father's coronation, wearing identical robes of royal purple, trimmed with ermine. Reporters, cameramen and radio commentators were fascinated at the sight of six-year-old Margaret yawning, stretching, tapping her silver slippers, riffling through the pages of a prayerbook, and tickling her sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick up one of her first and worst tantrums. When she learned that Elizabeth's dress was to have a train...
Potatoes & Toad. Nonetheless, the two sisters have always been fast friends. Margaret's bubbling imagination and great self-assurance have been a buoy for Elizabeth's shy conscientiousness; dutiful Elizabeth has been a steady rock for mercurial Margaret. When Elizabeth at eleven became a Girl Guide, she insisted that Margaret be enlisted too. The younger sister was signed up as a Brownie, Leprechaun division...
...Whatever Elizabeth did, Margaret followed in her own unpredictable way. When Elizabeth set out a neat garden of daffodils and tulips, Margaret planted rows of potatoes and pulled them all up to see how they were doing. While Elizabeth fondled her ponies and puppies, Margaret made pets of a salamander and a speckled toad. When Elizabeth won a certificate for lifesaving, Margaret had her day: she heaved her sister's pet Corgi into the pond on the day of a Buckingham Palace garden party and dived in after him, triumphant and heroic in her best party dress...
There were also new official responsibilities. Even before Elizabeth's wedding, Princess Margaret performed her first unassisted public duty, the launching of an ocean liner at Belfast. She made a pretty little speech, and when a young shipworker came to present her with a bouquet of roses, she graciously selected one and tucked it in his overall's bib. A nervous nation was relieved and pleased...