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...Princess, 21, and the Prince, 33, bright-eyed William Arthur Philip Louis appeared somewhat perplexed by his photo debut. But "Sweet William," as the London press has dubbed him, will probably get used to such attention. This week on another important family occasion, the 82nd birthday of his great-grandmum, the Queen Mother, the little Prince will have his christening at Buckingham Palace. But unlike many an event in his busy life to come, it will not be televised...
Despite her tendency to glower, Queen Victoria was not by any means a "puritanical old she-dragon breathing fire and brimstone." Or so says Prince Charles, 27, defending his great-great-great-grandmum in next month's issue of the British literary magazine Books and Bookmen. The heir apparent claims that Victoria was greatly misunderstood because of her famous judgment: "We are not amused." Actually, she was a "charming character" who "adored" a good laugh, says the prince. He cites, for example, an encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria...
...John Birnie Philip, is at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. But what ever happened to Whistler's Grandmother? Sleuths found the answer just in time for Mother's Day. When he was doing the family portraits. James McNeill Whistler never got around to his maternal grandmum, Mrs. Martha Kingsley McNeill. She was painted, nonetheless, by a pair of itinerant artists from Connecticut, and the 19½ in.; by 24-in. oil that Grandma never liked-all those frills-now contemplates posterity at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford...
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