Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's busiest married careerists. Elizabeth and Philip are often forced to pursue their duties separately, but at the start of each busy day, the door between their adjoining bedrooms at the palace is invariably open to permit them to chat while dressing. Even on the most crowded days they try to keep the time between 5 and 6:30 each evening free for a family romp with seven-year-old Anne (and Prince Charles when he is not at school); the rare evenings they can spend alone together are frequently devoted to television and an exchange of mocking...
...Philip has said, "to make this monarchy business work." Last week, as BOAC's U.S.-built DC; put down at Ottawa, Philip and Elizabeth stepped out to face still more newsreel and TV cameras with inquisitive eyes, still more thousands of eager and curious subjects. Standing at his wife's side, the Queen's husband was ready as ever for the job that is always with them-to bind together the people of not only a nation but an entire Commonwealth of Nations in an atmosphere of mutual trust, respect and affection...
...Elizabeth, captive of tradition and training, could not have established this cordial atmosphere alone. Like all royal children before her, she was sheltered from childhood from the outside world, rarely met any commoner who was not a servant, was spared the experience of school .by a succession of royal tutors. But Philip, a relatively impoverished princeling, was reared like a commoner, has washed dishes, fired boilers, even played on a skittles team organized by the owner of a local pub. As husband to the Queen, he has literally brought the world to his wife's door, and opened that...
...more vivid in British memories is Victoria's Prince Albert, founder of the present ruling house, who was the great-great-grandfather of both Elizabeth and Philip. Victoria, eager for the whole world to adore her husband as she did, was all for having the people crown Albert King right at the start. "For God's sake, Ma'am," her avuncular Prime Minister Lord Melbourne cried out at the idea, "if you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them...
Delicate Task. Philip could not model himself on his great-great-grandfather even if he would. He has no inclination to effacement, and even if he had a desire for power, the throne no longer commands it. Under the tacit terms of the constitution, Elizabeth is not allowed to express an opinion contrary to that of her parliamentary majority...