Word: lilibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected to show any great interest in her as a woman, but he could scarcely duck entertaining her. As an officer and a gentleman, he did his best to please by leaping lithely over a tennis net ("How good he is. Crawfie. How high he can jump!" cried Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced, but if Philip remembered anything special about the visit, it concerned the following morning when, back on duty and too' sleepy to hop to at first call...
...Lilibet, R. Long after Elizabeth herself had any realization that she would one day be Queen of England, Britons the world over had felt the destiny that lay before her. The curly-haired baby Lilibet had caught their heart and their imagination almost from her birth. As time and unpredictable fortune brought her closer to the throne, Elizabeth had proved herself more & more qualified to occupy it. As a rather fat little girl, as an earnest and leggy Girl Guide, as a shy, devoted daughter whose only rebellion took the form of insisting on doing war work like other girls...
...Three wreaths lay on the coffin: one from his widow, one from his younger daughter, one from Britain's Queen. The last, a white circle of lilies of the valley, camellias, carnations and hyacinths, was marked: "Darling Papa, from your loving and devoted daughter and son-in-law, Lilibet, Philip...
Once, when a French lesson got Lilibet's English up, the now matronly heiress apparent to Britain's throne impetuously crowned herself with an ornamental inkpot, and for a time had blue hair to match her blood...
...Lilibet, says Crawfie, was "quick with her left hook," and Margaret was "known to bite on occasions." The result: "a hand bearing the royal teeth marks...