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...white and gold drawing room of Buckingham Palace. The young Queen bade him kneel before her, and with a glittering sword touched him on each shoulder. When he arose, Britain's handsome Foreign Secretary was Sir Anthony Eden, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter...
...Thus, for the first time in history, two commoners in one government wear the Garter. Others, in past times: Walpole, Castlereagh, Palmerston, Balfour, Edward Grey, Neville Chamberlain...
This week, in the first Garter service of her reign, Britain's young Queen Elizabeth formally installed 79-year-old Sir Winston as a Knight Companion...
...morning ceremony in the throne room at Windsor Castle, Elizabeth herself adorned him with the ancient insignia of the Order: the golden collar, the "great George," the "lesser George," the Star and the Garter itself, a band of dark blue edged with gold and embroidered with the famed admonition of Edward III, "Honisoit qui mal y pense."-Later, in St. George's Chapel, Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Order, read aloud the new knight's name and style ("Sir"), and he was led to a stall hung with the lion rampant of the Churchills...
...years of public life, Winston Churchill has managed better than any other Briton to suffuse the political scene with the spirit of knight errantry. But to those Britons whose business was the practical administration of day to day politics, the principal interest concerning the newest Knight of the Garter last week was when he intends to lay down his lance...