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...Black Nun. Several London theaters have ghosts, most notably the Theater Royal on Drury Lane, where the good-omened "man in gray" floats into view-but only during the opening nights of successful productions. Westminster Cathedral, which was long ghost-free, reported its first spook in 1966, but Kensington and St. James's palaces and Windsor Castle have much longer ghostly histories, and the bloody Tower of London has been plagued for centuries...
...Kumin of 4 Washington Avenue, Cambridge; Laura E. Levine of Winthrop House and Stanford, Connecticut; Lucinda A. Lyons of Quincy House and Sheffield, Alabama; Marylyn E. Newman of Dunster House and Rensselaer. New York; Jane B. Phipps of Peabody Terrace, Cambridge; Linda C. Roth of Jordon J Hall and Kensington, Maryland...
...which it and its subjects have become accustomed. Of the overall $1,140,000 allotted annually, $444,000 goes for household salaries (319 full-time employees ranging from footmen to curators in the Royal Collections); $292,320 for household expenses (five royal palaces-Buckingham, Windsor, St. James's, Kensington and Holyrood-house-plus royal receptions and garden parties); $31,680 for the Royal Bounty, a fund from which the Queen contributes to charity; plus a $144,000 Privy Purse or salary from which she pays her personal expenses...
...have been a steady twosome, and during his recent hospitalization (for a hemorrhoid operation), "it was Lady Jackie who visited him even more often than Margaret." Last week, as the rumors flew, sometime Fashion Model Jacqueline left England for Switzerland, sometime Fashion Photographer Tony worked in a wheelchair at Kensington Palace, and Princess Margaret and the two children visited Queen Elizabeth at Sandringham. Jacqueline's mother, Lady Reading, denying all, called the reports "absolutely ridiculous," but from Princess Margaret's official spokesman, Major John Griffin, it was: "As far as I know, there is no romance. Denials were...
...GERTRUDE ROBISON Kensington...