Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Princess Margaret married Commoner Antony Armstrong-Jones a year ago, London waist watchers have had a field day. But after two premature press guesses proved wrong last summer and fall, the susurrus of the rumor mills gradually died away. Last week the watchers were taken by surprise when Kensington Palace announced that Princess Margaret was "expecting" a baby in October or early November...
...could do. Royal protocol made working for a living unthinkable, and Tony had no wealth of his own, so Parliament upped his wife's allowance from $16,800 to $42,000, and Tony had to move into one of his in-laws' houses on the grounds of Kensington Palace. The butler promptly quit and told all, complaining that Tony was far too democratic for any royal servant to work for. To keep busy around the house while his wife was out working at her royal duties, Tony designed and built an elaborate balsa-wood model of an aviary...
...suits me") who had waffled at least four assorted autos, a light-hearted playboy whose pranks had been questioned on the floor of Commons. While the toothy peer muddled and frolicked through Eton and Sandhurst, quiet Kate Worsley diligently attended day school, taught at Lady Eden's fashionable Kensington kindergarten. But then the shy, unspoiled schoolmarm retired to her Yorkshire home, gardened with her mother, stomped the moors of the 4,000-acre family estate with her father, Sir William Worsley, onetime team captain and now president of the county cricket club. And last week the Duke of Kent...
...last Terry-Thomas is rewarded with a starring role in a suitably dotty but amiable bit of British nonsense, and he carries it off with his usual weedy charm and blithering idiocy. He is cast as a retired major who shares a flat in Kensington with three maiden ladies (Athene Seyler, Elspeth Duxbury, Hattie Jacques) while together they subside regretfully into "the teatime of life." What to do with themselves? Suddenly one of the dear old things has an inspiration that could lend vast new dimensions to the science of geriatrics: Why not organize a crime syndicate and devote...
...plot remains pretty much the same; both versions are based on the novel by the late John Buchan. The hero (Kenneth More), while strolling in Kensington Gardens, sees a nanny struck down by a hit-and-run driver and pursues her runaway pram. Instead of a baby he finds a gun inside. Next day the nanny, recovered from the accident, visits the hero's flat and announces herself as a British agent who has just about got the goods on a big international spy ring. But when the hero leaves the room to arrange a spot of tea, somebody...