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Once again tearing Husband Tony from his matchstick-model making at Kensington Palace, Britain's Princess Margaret, 30, showed a sample of her glittering new maternity wardrobe at a Fortune Theater performance of a satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe, which sniped at everything from the Establishment to Shakespeare. Predictably, the princess gave every outward indication of savoring the pungent aroma of roasted sacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 28, 1961 | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...lined the 14-mile route into London for a look at the world's first cosmonaut, cheered and chanted "Gagarin" as his motorcade swept by. Standing in an open silver Rolls-Royce with a specially issued license plate "YG-1," Yuri waved and grinned. When he turned into Kensington High Street, the crowd broke through the police barriers to surge into the street. Watching 100 yds. away behind the fence of Kensington Palace, a lone figure waved: Princess Margaret, who had waited half an hour to glimpse Yuri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Out of this World | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Married. Thomas Albert Cronin, 45, silver-haired, carping Crichton who left his $46.80-a-week Kensington Palace post after 25 days because of the bohemian and meddlesome ways of Master Tony Armstrong-Jones, wrote some embarrassing memoirs and migrated to Florida as $300-a-week butler-host of the Dania Jai-Alai Palace; and May Groom, 50, grandmotherly shebeen queen of a London pub; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 21, 1961 | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming-out ball given by Hungarian-born Textile Manufacturer Miki Sekers, finally got back to Kensington Palace just before dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 30, 1961 | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Surprise | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

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