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...this year another batch began its assault on London from another direction, outside the gates at Wethersfield, site of a U.S. Air Force base. In kilts and quilts, tights and jeans, marching to bagpipes and jazz, they ranged from beatniks to such U-types as socialite Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Observer film critic and wife of Antony Armstrong-Jones's best man and five Eton schoolboys carrying a suitably supercilious banner: "Even Eton Says Ban the Bomb." The common purpose of all the marchers: to make publicity for the unilateral nuclear disarmament of Britain and an end to NATO bases...
Surprise Invitation. By week's end the nervous and harried bridegroom had found a new best man. He is Dr. Roger W. Gilliatt, 37, a London nerve specialist and the son of a former physician to Queen Elizabeth. Dr. Gilliatt accepted the invitation with pleasure, but admitted to newsmen that he was also surprised to be asked to be best man, since he did not know Tony Armstrong-Jones that well. Obviously, the best man had not been found among Tony's best friends...
...been made ready for the event. In an improvised but immaculate delivery room on the second floor, hospital equipment rented from a local supply house stood scrubbed and sterilized. Each day the healthy young expectant mother had been given a going-over by beetle-browed Obstetrician Sir William Gilliatt...
...London, one of the King's Birthday Honors finally went to 75-year-old Poet Walter De La Mare, myth-&-mystic immortal, who became a Companion of Honor. Novelist Elizabeth Bowen became a Commander of the British Empire. William Gilliatt, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (who had just been named attendant specialist to Princess Elizabeth), got a friendly vote of confidence when he was made a Knight Bachelor...
...Royal Highness was safely delivered of a son this morning. The condition of Her Royal Highness and of the infant prince is satisfactory. (Signed) W. Gilliatt, M.D., M.F., F.C.O.G.; A. E. Gow, M.D., F.R., C.P.; H. A. Richards, M.R.C.S., L.R. C.P." Sir John ratified the truth of this statement and the British royal house officially had one more heir...