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Banalities & Black Bottoms. The engrossing story begins with the Prince of Wales's casual classes in kingship and a talk about the facts of royal life with his father (said George V: "Always remember . . . who you are"). But the Prince's "mature development" was left pretty much to chance. One of the only positive pieces of advice came from an old courtier who observed: "Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down."* The Prince's first important royal job was an exciting and educational...
...engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week Miss Stein, a gypsy-faced, beauty whose father works for Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., music publishers, was meeting the family...
...Practical Kingdom. The argument over Leopold's return, his taste in wives and golf partners, has nothing to do with the kingship as such. Belgians overwhelmingly want their monarch. A practical people, they know that he serves a very practical purpose-the symbolic link binding them together as a nation...
...customer was approaching kingship again in more fields than retail trade. His unwillingness to buy overpriced houses had caused new construction to fall off 12 %-more than seasonal-in October. And many high-priced houses had had "for sale" signs on them for months. Some housing materials might soon be cheaper. The lumber industry, whose record production had begun to back up in the yards, had already trimmed wholesale prices; yet production was still ahead of sales...
Such considerations might hold Eire-and India-in the Commonwealth, but they would not take the place of "kingship and kinship," nor the place of the once-supreme British Navy...