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Last week, romping in a yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact, she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess" ... Presents for their daughter are more of a problem to the Duke & Duchess of York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example...
...name. Royalty, seldom satisfied with less than six names to roll sonorously over the tongues of ushers and court chamberlains, was startled at the staccato abruptness of Margaret Rose. Even so, Londoners wagered that it would soon become even shorter, that as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has become "P'incess Lilybet" to the press, Margaret Rose would be Princess Madge...
Four-year-old Princess Elizabeth was told by efficient Nurse Knight that she was "P'incess Lilybet" no longer but "big Sister Betty." Shouting with excitement Big Sister Betty demanded to see the new baby instanter "cause grandaddy's the King." She announced later that she preferred it to all her other pets; her chow dog, her canary, her Shetland pony Jessie, present from Grandaddy George...
...Royal Highness Elizabeth Duchess of York, sole daughter-in-law of George V, King & Emperor, mother of "P'incess Lilybet" (sole granddughter), cancelled all her summer engagements. If male, her next infant will be third in succession to Britain's throne...
First child of the bonny, blooming "Little Duchess" is Princess Elizabeth of York who recently was three (TIME, April 29) Famed as "Baby Betty" before she could talk, she now asserts, "I am Lilybet the P'incess!" No one else except the Queen rides out so often with the King, in royalty's big, black, softly-purring Daimler. For three years the P'incess has been an old man's darling, may possibly learn in another three years what it is to be a younger brother's slave...