Word: kensington
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...Thomas Albert Cronin, 44. His former employer: Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones, an ex-photographer and present husband of Princess Margaret. On a double-truck spread in the weekly People, Cronin poured out the reasons he left his royal job after only 25 days at Tony and Meg's Kensington Palace residence. With butlerian unctuousness, Cronin declares that the exposé is for him "a painful task" but necessary to preserve the "dignity of the royal family and my own reputation...
...when duty called last spring in the form of an "approach" from Kensington Palace, Cronin gallantly undertook the job-at a salary of $2,200 a year-despite his unfavorable impression of his new master. Tony Armstrong-Jones's pants, in Cronin's opinion, were still much too "tight-fitting." Worse, his new master had not even the rudimentary good sense to stay abovestairs, but popped into the kitchen ("a place I do not expect to see masters") to ask how things were going. Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire...
...burst into flame in a foreign city. Giving a memorable performance in a new London play called Tomorrow-With Pictures, she is identified as a "queen bitch," an American woman who wants to conquer a British newspaper empire. Much of the battle is won on the playing sheets of Kensington. But in the end, she loses the spoils and has nothing...
England, began settling down in Clarence House, the Queen Mother's London residence and the newlyweds' temporary abode until their red brick home at 10 Kensington Palace is ready for occupation next month. Some odd news awaited them: Tony's effigy had been swiped from Madame Tussaud's famed London wax museum. Said a Tussaud spokesman: "We are most upset...
...heeded the advice of her Australian pianist husband, Richard Bonynge, began concentrating on coloratura parts and on the little-performed 18th century Italian bel canto repertory. Now, on the living-room wall of her Kensington home, Soprano Sutherland has a picture of one of her idols: Singer Elizabeth Weichsel Billington, reputedly the mistress of George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing...